...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?
Jonathan LethemNovelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
Jonathan LethemI have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeะ people are buying the whole thing.
Jonathan LethemIt wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
Jonathan Lethem