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 content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not....

People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the....

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....

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing....

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....