the Mandrill with his multicolored wonder ass that he used…

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

— Michael Chabon

“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

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

“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

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

— Michael Chabon

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Michael Chabon

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

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

— Michael Chabon

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

“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