Quotes by : Jonathan Franzen

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

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through....

She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever....

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think....

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

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

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

Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was....

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.