Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 March 1937
CityGlen Cove, NY
CountryUnited States of America
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
Our history is an aggregate of last moments
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross
A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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.
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.