Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Quotes
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.