More Quotes by Thomas Pynchon
Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
A screaming comes across the sky.
Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.