You can't be deep without a surface Author: Jonathan Lethem Copy Quote More from Jonathan Lethem “I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive p…” “People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.” “I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an…” “Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.”