Motherless Brooklyn Quotes

#1. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

Gary Krist

#2. Assume nothing, Shara reminds herself. You do not know until you know.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

Arthur Miller

#4. I am everything I am and nothing I am not.

Yolonda Bailey

#5. Where crying isn't secret its the art of how we grieve.

JUSTIN FURSTENFELD

#6. From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don't see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out.

Helen Sharman

#7. Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

Peter Diamandis

#8. There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

#9. It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.

Rob Bell

#10. It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn't rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.

Sherman Alexie

#11. Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Robert Bridges

#12. My idea of a good night out is staying in.

Martin Freeman

#13. All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Kim Addonizio