Pynchon Paranoia Quotes & Sayings

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. — Thomas Pynchon

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon

For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia. — Thomas Pynchon

If there is something comforting-religious , if you want-about paranoia-there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. — Thomas Pynchon

It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day - the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be sanity. — Thomas Pynchon

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. — Thomas Pynchon