Michael Chabon

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

— Michael Chabon

“You mendacious sons of bitches,” the mahout said”

— Michael Chabon

A father is a man who fails every day.

— Michael Chabon

“It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.”

— Michael Chabon

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.

— Michael Chabon

Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

— Michael Chabon

Do what you gotta do and stay fly

— Michael Chabon

“In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.”

— Michael Chabon

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

— Michael Chabon

“It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.”

— Michael Chabon

“But the boy had a gift. And it was in the nature of a gift that it be endlessly given. ”

— Michael Chabon

“All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe.”

— Michael Chabon

“The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.”

— Michael Chabon

“you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out. He…

— Michael Chabon

“breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow’s pulse. While he worked, he asked about the”

— Michael Chabon

“And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.”

— Michael Chabon

“My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and…

— Michael Chabon

“...it had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered--what matters so often in…

— Michael Chabon

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available…

— Michael Chabon

“The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first…

— Michael Chabon

“A few flames crackled here and there along the nubs that once were branches. Then they flickered out, too, leaving smoke, a…

— Michael Chabon

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence…

— Michael Chabon

“A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely.…

— Michael Chabon

“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and…

— Michael Chabon

“The pajamas were patterned with red pinstripes and tiny blue escutcheons. Sammy was wearing a pair that had red escutcheons with blue…

— Michael Chabon

“Every hour that passes, another hundredweight of sand is poured in through a tiny hole in Landsman's soul. After his eyes are…

— Michael Chabon

“wild discipline by a dozen red-shirted men. The remaining half of the black-armored Arsiyah dismounted to confront the barred gate. They could…

— Michael Chabon

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he…

— Michael Chabon

“He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable…

— Michael Chabon

He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that…

— Michael Chabon

I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant…

— Michael Chabon

“His bit of pencil turned up in the seat pocket of his short trousers, but as the search for the pad continued…

— Michael Chabon

“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a…

— Michael Chabon

“What would she be saying if she did? That she did want to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she…

— Michael Chabon

“Can you imagine an infinite tree?...A tree whose roots snake down all the way to the bottomest bottom of everything?...if you've ever…

— Michael Chabon

“There’s something purely foolish about attending any large gathering of men and women without benefit of some kind of philter or magic…

— Michael Chabon

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty…

— Michael Chabon

There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden…

— Michael Chabon

“Get dressed,' Bina says. 'And do yourself a favor? Clean this shit up. Look at this dump. I can't believe you're living…

— Michael Chabon

“She reaches down into her bulging tote bag and pulls out a small plastic box with a hinged lid. It contains a…

— Michael Chabon