Thomas Pynchon

“Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.”

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”

“Why should things be easy to understand?”

“Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.”

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”