Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go,… — 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
“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
“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
I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox. — 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
“I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport… — 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“THE CHOICE, BY BOTH PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI JEWS, TO TRUST ONE another is perilous. Day after day, the mechanisms of life under… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
