278 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.

She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.

there was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar

Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from me, stripped off like clothes I'd only borrowed or stolen. I had maybe the least persuasive case for self-pity of any human soul on the planet. Or anyway, the most hilarious.

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain---same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.

Go buy milk,' Robert said at last.Dylan moved for Buggy's door.But if ou come around here with that old lady's money next time I might have to take it off you.'Dylan recognized this as a sort of philosophical using. He was grateful for the implied sense of pooled information. He and Robert could move forward together from this point into whatever was required.

All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.