Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow Quotes
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.
The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.