Quotes by : Jonathan Lethem

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best....

By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation....

How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best?....

It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the....

The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling....

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

This was the time when all we could talk about was sentences, sentences—nothing else stirred us. Whatever....

Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd....

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned....