Jonathan Lethem

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.