It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Jonathan LethemIt was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
Jonathan LethemFor those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
Jonathan LethemNerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
Jonathan Lethem