It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
Thomas PynchonAll investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Thomas PynchonThe 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 PynchonSo the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.
Thomas Pynchon