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The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated.
— Jonathan Lethem
The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)
— Jonathan Lethem
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
— Jonathan Lethem
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
— Jonathan Lethem
It was good while it was good.
— Jonathan Lethem
I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
— Jonathan Lethem
Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
— Jonathan Lethem
All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
— Jonathan Lethem
The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In
— Jonathan Lethem
Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic.
— Jonathan Lethem
Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.
— Jonathan Lethem
The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.
— Jonathan Lethem
Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also." "Yes.
— Jonathan Lethem
What exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?
— Jonathan Lethem
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
— Jonathan Lethem
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
— Jonathan Lethem
There are no metaphysics.
— Jonathan Lethem
I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.
— Jonathan Lethem
Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
— Jonathan Lethem
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
— Jonathan Lethem
Everyone's body betrayed them in different ways, it was all forgiven and never discussed.
— Jonathan Lethem
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
— Jonathan Lethem
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
— Jonathan Lethem
Minutes died serially into hours. Bruno
— Jonathan Lethem
This kiss would be with me, invisible badge or scar, when I went back to the apartment.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm forever writing around a void - I guess I don't have to explain to you why that is.
— Jonathan Lethem
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.
— Jonathan Lethem
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
— Jonathan Lethem
You can't reclaim a thing that changes as you touch it.
— Jonathan Lethem
I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
— Jonathan Lethem
Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.
— Jonathan Lethem
Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!
— Jonathan Lethem
I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.
— Jonathan Lethem
You can't be deep without a surface
— Jonathan Lethem
How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?
— Jonathan Lethem
I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.
— Jonathan Lethem
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
— Jonathan Lethem
How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
— Jonathan Lethem
My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.
— Jonathan Lethem
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
— Jonathan Lethem
May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?
— Jonathan Lethem
Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.
— Jonathan Lethem
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
— Jonathan Lethem
Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.
— Jonathan Lethem
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
— Jonathan Lethem
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
— Jonathan Lethem
I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.
— Jonathan Lethem
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
— Jonathan Lethem
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
— Jonathan Lethem
Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
— Jonathan Lethem
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
— Jonathan Lethem
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
— Jonathan Lethem
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
— Jonathan Lethem
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
— Jonathan Lethem
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
— Jonathan Lethem
Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.
— Jonathan Lethem
Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you.
— Jonathan Lethem
His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.
— Jonathan Lethem
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
— Jonathan Lethem
Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.
— Jonathan Lethem
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
— Jonathan Lethem
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
— Jonathan Lethem
I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.
— Jonathan Lethem
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
— Jonathan Lethem
Prince's music calmed me as much as masturbation or a cheeseburger.
— Jonathan Lethem
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
— Jonathan Lethem
She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
— Jonathan Lethem
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
— Jonathan Lethem
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
— Jonathan Lethem
Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.
— Jonathan Lethem
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
— Jonathan Lethem
I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
— Jonathan Lethem
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
— Jonathan Lethem
I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
— Jonathan Lethem
(I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.
— Jonathan Lethem
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
— Jonathan Lethem
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
— Jonathan Lethem
She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek ... "Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York.
— Jonathan Lethem
Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.
— Jonathan Lethem
There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
— Jonathan Lethem
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
— Jonathan Lethem
Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.
— Jonathan Lethem
Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
— Jonathan Lethem
Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24)
— Jonathan Lethem
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
— Jonathan Lethem
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.
— Jonathan Lethem
I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
— Jonathan Lethem
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
— Jonathan Lethem
I've learned not to trust what I see on television.
— Jonathan Lethem