Joshua Ferris

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage…

— Joshua Ferris

If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of…

— Joshua Ferris

“I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time…

— Joshua Ferris

“One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at…

— Joshua Ferris

To conform is to lose your soul

— Joshua Ferris

“There was so much unpleasantness in the workaday world. The last thing you ever wanted to do at night was go home…

— Joshua Ferris

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission…

— Joshua Ferris

“For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the…

— Joshua Ferris

“Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways…

— Joshua Ferris

“That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.”

— Joshua Ferris

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

— Joshua Ferris

“...she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow…

— Joshua Ferris

“I swore never to use the emoticon ever… until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first :) and,…

— Joshua Ferris

I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might…

— Joshua Ferris

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“We hated not knowing something. We hated not knowing who was going to walk Spanish down the hall. How would our bills…

— Joshua Ferris

“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by…

— Joshua Ferris

The people at the very top could fall by and grace you with their presence and give you a little largesse, and…

— Joshua Ferris

“We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family…

— Joshua Ferris

“If you hate the Yankees so much,” Connie asked me, “why did you move to New York?” “To find out what kind…

— Joshua Ferris

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages.…

— Joshua Ferris

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a…

— Joshua Ferris

Things could be worse and things could be so much better.

— Joshua Ferris

“He had given up, she thought, or he had died trying to reach her mother before she did, and in neither of…

— Joshua Ferris

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't…

— Joshua Ferris