We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Sometimes in the shadows the view would light up, usually when he was smoking weed, as if the contrast knob of Creation had been messed with just enough to give everything an underglow, a luminous edge, and promise that the night was about to turn epic somehow.

Written By Thomas Pynchon

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