Quote

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Thomas Pynchon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Jr.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Individual
Comes
Bless
Women
Heads
Littles
Desires
Little
Empty
Must
Courses
Men
Course
Desire

More quotes by Thomas Pynchon

Image
Some of us are afraid of dying others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Teamwork, Koteks snarled, is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
Thomas Pynchon
Image
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
Thomas Pynchon
Image
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).
Thomas Pynchon