Robert > Robert's Quotes

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”
― Kathy Acker

“I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.”
― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology

“IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

“GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”
― Kathy Acker