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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

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. — 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

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible. — 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

exemplified the dull rigidity of Singapore's old colonial fantasies about itself. — 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

There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar — 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

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. — Libba Bray

(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