Michael Chabon

“It was rare but not unheard of for an analysand tossed by tides of transference and desublimation to seek the safety of…

— Michael Chabon

“Always true to the code,” she said.”

— 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

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially…

— Michael Chabon

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

— Michael Chabon

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

— Michael Chabon

“Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of…

— Michael Chabon

“Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes,…

— Michael Chabon

“I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport…

— Michael Chabon

“It was on the steamer carrying him through the Golden Gate that he happened to reach down into the hole in the…

— Michael Chabon

“I had slipped into that familiar marijuana state which lies between happiness and utter panic, and my heart was pounding.”

— Michael Chabon

“Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.”

— Michael Chabon

“The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.”

— Michael Chabon

“As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.”

— 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

That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin…

— Michael Chabon

“Through a determined program of sheer dumb luck and liberal applications of THC I had managed never to impregnate a woman before,”

— Michael Chabon

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

— Michael Chabon

“A surprising fact about the magician Bernard Kornblum, Joe remembered, was that he believed in magic. Not in the so-called magic of…

— Michael Chabon

“He didn't want to be what he wasn't, he didn't know how to be what he was.”

— Michael Chabon

When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved…

— Michael Chabon

Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops…

— Michael Chabon

I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

“And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made…

— Michael Chabon

“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