To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. - Thomas Pynchon

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

Temporal bandwidth” is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar “Δt” considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even — as Slothrop now — what you’re doing here,