The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
Jonathan FranzenBirds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.
Jonathan FranzenRobin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.
Jonathan Franzenshe was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
Jonathan FranzenTHE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.
Jonathan Franzen