Quotes by : Joshua Ferris

We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our....

If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off,....

I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend....

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing....

For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not....

I think we’re losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here,” said Genevieve. But we feared that....

She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts....

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the....

The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It....

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony....