Jonathan Franzen Quotes

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.

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

There was no arguing with blood.

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.