Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.

- Joshua Ferris

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth …

- Joshua Ferris

The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you spend enough time o…

- Joshua Ferris

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

- Joshua Ferris

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes iden…

- Joshua Ferris

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary …

- Joshua Ferris

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about th…

- Joshua Ferris

To conform is to lose your soul

- 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. I don't think that makes fo…

- Joshua Ferris