Michael Chabon

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our…

— Michael Chabon

“They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I…

— Michael Chabon

“I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.”

— Michael Chabon

“The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.”

— Michael Chabon

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

— Michael Chabon

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

— Michael Chabon

“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.”

— Michael Chabon

“The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a…

— Michael Chabon

“She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton…

— Michael Chabon

“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so…

— Michael Chabon

“The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.”

— Michael Chabon

“Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains—walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final feat of autoliberation was…

— Michael Chabon

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about…

— Michael Chabon

“As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really…

— Michael Chabon

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam…

— Michael Chabon

That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart…

— Michael Chabon

Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If…

— Michael Chabon

“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically…

— Michael Chabon

It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing.…

— Michael Chabon

I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two…

— Michael Chabon

“I don't want to have 'carnal knowledge' with any old Zuni, asshole." From the way she seemed to relish the word asshole…

— Michael Chabon

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to…

— Michael Chabon

“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The…

— Michael Chabon

“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was…

— Michael Chabon

“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the…

— Michael Chabon

“The shock and fragrance of life, steaming red life, given off by the trail of the German's blood in the snow was…

— Michael Chabon

“But like all beautiful faces Emily's made you believe that its possessor was a better person than she was. It allowed her…

— Michael Chabon

“The annual celebrations of God’s mercy, justice, and power, the feasts or fasts undertaken in praise of His Name, the miracles He…

— Michael Chabon

“It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some…

— Michael Chabon

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible…

— Michael Chabon

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels…

— Michael Chabon

“He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman’s lack of faith.”

— Michael Chabon

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

— Michael Chabon

“The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward”

— Michael Chabon

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

— Michael Chabon

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

— Michael Chabon

“A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction”

— Michael Chabon

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

— Michael Chabon

“It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.”

— Michael Chabon