There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.
Jonathan LethemWhat's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
Jonathan LethemI'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
Jonathan LethemInsomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.
Jonathan Lethem