Quotes by : Jonathan Lethem

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

Eighth grade's a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between....

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

The voices may propel you to warble along, or to dance, they may inspire you to seduction or insurrection....

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

It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone....

Did he ever--try?'Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.'What's that mean?'Means he tried.'Of course. The....

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....

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious,....