Pynchon Wiki Quotes

#1. Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

#2. In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly.

Roxane Gay

#3. Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

Mark Hatfield

#6. Knew what it was to loose him. That specific being. that unique and miraculous collision of biology and history, spirit and matter.

Janet Fitch

#7. I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

Tupac Shakur