Quotes About Jonathan Lethem

May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?

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

I am exiting the wider world, to return to my homeland of bullying, psychosis, and bad taste. Forgive me. It is a medical matter. Once

How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?

The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro.

His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.