“I like Catch-22, Gravity’s Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels – Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig – invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn’t do the job they had in mind.”

“I like Catch-22, Gravity’s Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels – Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig – invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn’t do the job they had in mind.”

— William Zinsser