Jonathan Lethem Quotes

I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.

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

Baader-Meinhof Gruppe, they are called also.” “Yes.

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.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

He allowed himself to feel that his stubbornness was courage. Maybe it was.

Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop.

It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere.

You can't be deep without a surface.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

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.

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

I've learned not to trust what I see on television.