Thomas Pynchon

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#diagnosis #possibility #worlds #change

and men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#men

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#writers-on-writing #art

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#age

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#death #persist #persistence #remembrance #wine

Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#communication

You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#inspirational

At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#inspirational

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#between #chance #difference #god #operations

She would give them order. She would create constellations. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#create #give #order #she #them