There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,… — 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
That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It was awful luck that my pot-hobbled spermatozoa had managed to rally themselves for one last mad fallopian adventure, and that five… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“THE STORY GOES THAT I sucked too avidly at my mother’s breast, and caused an abscess to bloom in the tender flesh… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I had a lot of disasters in the kitchen, even during the long period when I was cooking under my mother's supervision… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Crabtree's father was a Pentecostalist preacher somewhere out in Hogscrotum County, MO, and his mother was the editor-in-chief of a magazine for… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Like 90 percent of the television they watch, it comes from the south and is shown dubbed into Yiddish. It concerns the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city,… — 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
