Thomas Pynchon Quotes

“Scattered all over the Zone.”

“Death is a debt to nature due, Which I have paid, and so must you.”

“One of the sweetest fruits of victory, after sleep and looting, must be the chance to ignore no-parking signs.”

“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling.”

“Perhaps we were meant to meet.”

“AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN.”

“Everyone’s equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket.”

“Yet who can presume to say what the War wants, so vast and aloof it is... so absentee.”

“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me”

“A screaming comes across the sky.”

“Till the Light that hath brought the towers low find the last poor Pret’rite one.”

“Up to a point he finds the agony delightful.

“Their feelings about blackness were tied to feelings...about putrefaction and death.”

“The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War.”

“But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being.”

“This is the War’s evensong, the War’s canonical hour, and the night is real.

“It might almost—if one were paranoid enough—seem to be a collaboration here, between both sides of the Wall, matter and spirit.”

“The people out here were meant to go down first. We’re expendable.”

“A Rocket-cartel. A structure cutting across every agency human and paper that ever touched it.”

″[War] provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.”