“One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End.… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I charge you as I was charged. Don't waste your life. Don't allow your body's weakness to be a weakness of your… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and… — 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
“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 true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the… — michael chabon Copy Share Image
He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Do you think they were ever happy?" "Definitely," I said. "Definitely?" "For sure." "She went crazy. His business failed. They couldn't have… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“What would she be saying if she did? That she did want to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — 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
