If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

- Thomas Pynchon

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

- Thomas Pynchon

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidde…

- Thomas Pynchon

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

- Thomas Pynchon

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chao…

- Thomas Pynchon

You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure w…

- Thomas Pynchon

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

- Thomas Pynchon

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

- Thomas Pynchon

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

- Thomas Pynchon