Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.