Character Quote by 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 them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

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

— Joshua Ferris

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

— Joshua Ferris

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

— 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 and do…

— Joshua Ferris

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

— Joshua Ferris

“For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the tallest buildings—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 I'm alienated…

— 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 for second-guessing.”

— Joshua Ferris