Quotes by : Jonathan Franzen

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see....

I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics, and I’m in favor of the music industry …....

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with....

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world,....

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated....

The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying,....

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

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the....