Thomas Pynchon Quotes

“I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:

"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar.

"Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob.

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade.

"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already.

"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner

“What chance has a lonely surfer boy
For the love of a surfer chick,
With all these Humbert Humbert cats
Coming on so big and sick?
For me, my baby was a woman.
For him she’s just another nymphet.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“No hotel can be recommended as first-class that is not satisfactory in its sanitary arrangements, which should include an abundant flush of water and a supply of proper toilette paper.”
― Karl Baedeker

“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“girls had turned overnight into whooping, hollering brides of the multitude.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“...At the moment I am in LA, or possibly only think I am, and who knows for how long...
later,
Pyn~chon~”
― Thomas Pynchon

“What is a village without village idiots ?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“Stargazing in those parts was a young man's term for masturbating”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“A Loony Bin with homework. Basically.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

“Everyone has an Antarctica. On one level or another, we all come here for answers. Not just for science, for the climate, but to discover what lies inside ourselves - and others.”
― emma haughton, The Dark