278 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.

My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.