278 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

There’s never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle in the space of three hours. I wondered what goonish spectacles I’d overlooked in my own career as a pavement walker.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people’s attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog – I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

His jabber had a glottal, chanted quality, seemingly designed to guide you past the territory where you might wish to tell him to shut up already or even to strike him, into a realm of baffled wonderment as you considered the white noise of a nerd’s id in full song.

Comics? Honestly, that’s more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

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

I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.

I’m tightly wound. I’m a loose cannon. Both – I’m a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.