Quotes by : Jonathan Franzen

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and lay....

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's....

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto....

If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all....

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit....

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm....

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness....

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.