Quotes by Thomas Pynchon

Explore a curated collection of 11 quotes by Thomas Pynchon. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon
Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or — Thomas Pynchon
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late — Thomas Pynchon
Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose t — Thomas Pynchon
Why should things be easy to understand? — Thomas Pynchon
This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be responsible anymore to — Thomas Pynchon
These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To app — Thomas Pynchon
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is — Thomas Pynchon
Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest d — Thomas Pynchon
The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost. — Thomas Pynchon
Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an express on the other — Thomas Pynchon