“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTroubleStageIgnoranceStructureScopeStages Of Life Book:Slow Learner Source: Slow Learner
“A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.” KnowsWellsPersonsSaidFormYoungForceKnow HowWeaponsRootsDefeatWhy NotSooner Or LaterReverse Book:Against the Day Source: Against the Day
“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.” ThinkingKnowsLoveMayLittlesMomentsBodyFacesNightSimpleBirdRomanticRainGrassLiving Things Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.” KnowsWorldSaidMiracleAnother WorldCoexistIntrusion Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
