Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. - Thomas Pynchon
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. - Thomas Pynchon
Why should things be easy to understand? - Thomas Pynchon
This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be responsible anymore to the future. A burden has been lifted from them. The Baby Jesus is managing the portfolio of earthly affairs, and nobody begrudges Him the carried interest... - Thomas Pynchon