“And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“They had an old-fashioned sincerity...that touched Archy in this time when everything good in life was either synthesised in transgenic cyborg vats… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“But there is no Messiah of Sitka. Landsman has no home, no future, no fate but Bina. The land that he and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“and that was when Sam Clay experienced a moment of global vision, one which he would afterward come to view as the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Approaching the Williamsburg Bridge - not really certain of how he had managed to find himself there - he experienced an extraordinary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It was not an inordinately large ass, yet the heft of it seemed to connect him to an immense source of gravitation,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. — Michael Chabon Copy Share
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
“For as long as I could remember, I'd been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book].… — Michael Chabon Copy Share
