Zoyd Quotes & Sayings

But thinking was for pussies, and I wasn't one of those, even if I had one. — Anonymous

commandments and — Anonymous

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. — Mignon McLaughlin

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand. — Mukesh Ambani

Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics. — Ernest Hemingway,

How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road? — Kate Morton

I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . . — Thomas Pynchon

34"So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today. — Anonymous

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read. — Saul David

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk. — John Steinbeck

Somebody put a Fascist Toejam cassette, 300 watts of sonic apocalypse, on to the van stereo, Isaiah gallantly handed Prairie up into the lurid fuchsia padding of this rolling orgy room, where she became indistinct among an unreadable pattern of Vomitones and their girlfriends, and quickly, in an arc unexpectedly graceful, they had all turned outward, tached up, engaged, and like a time machine departing for the future, forever too soon for Zoyd, boomed away up the thin, cloudpressed lane. — Thomas Pynchon

The whole system of mental therapeutics may be divided into two parts; what we may designate as metaphysical cure denies that either matter or evil exists, and heals by inspiring the belief that the disease cannot assail the patient because he is pure spirit; the other class, faith cure, recognizes the disease, but cures by faith in the power of divinity, persons, objects, or suggestion. — George Barton Cutten

Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dreams these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in the wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits. He groaned out of bed. Somewhere down the hill hammers and saws were busy and country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio. Zoyd was out of smokes. — Thomas Pynchon

I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier's uniform. — Joan Nestle

Forgiveness is the joy of friendship. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read. — Rod Serling

Zoyd was out of smokes. — Thomas Pynchon

Zoyd remembered her...as a tall florid girl in a minidress that bore the image, from neck to hemline, of Frank Zappa's face, thus linking her in Zoyd's mind somehow with Mount Rushmore. — Thomas Pynchon