Rhys Hender

“Decisions are never really made—at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all-round assholery.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“I want to break out – to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives as they are lived, deaths as they are died, all that is made of flesh, blood, semen, bone, fire, pain, shit, madness, intoxication, visions, everything that has been passing down here forever, is real history.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day