Quotes by : Jonathan Franzen

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about....

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity.....

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

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

Their marriages had been Old Testament, hers a matter of honoring her covenant with Charles, Tom's a....

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its....

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as....

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy....

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