Thomas Pynchon

“A screaming comes across the sky.”

“Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all-round assholery.”

“Personal density is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth.”

“Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac, whom you are powerless to stop.”

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium.”

“Why should things be easy to understand?”

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place.”

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the void.”

“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.”

“It is a puzzle, a source of entertainment, a subject for contemplation, but it is not something to be solved.”

“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.”

“Time is never wasted if you're getting wasted all the time.”

“A woman is a letter. You must not read her with your fingers.”

“Word is associative, symbol is integrative. This is the real reason for the degradation of language in the modern world.”

“Paranoia is the garlic in life's kitchen: you can never have too much.”

“Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”

“So much of what we call 'memory' is imagined.”

“Some of us are just here to be memories for our children.”