These come from the second section of Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. The section, called Un Perm' au Casino Hermann Goering (a soldier on leave at the Hermann Goering casino) shifts from an endless hedonistic chaotic party at a French resort into a world of manipulation and fear. The main character, Theodore Slothrop has all of his identification papers stolen and is passed around from one shady character to another. As he decends into abject paranoia, he learns the lessons of each of these proverbs.

• You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
• The innocence of the creature is in inverse proportion to the immortality of the Master.
• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
• You hide, they seek.