All Michael Chabon Quotes
- A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. Already Half
- When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. Asked
- . . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia,… Been
- Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him… Among
- All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. All
- I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I… All
- 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 onto… Any
- Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. Act
- It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb… Animal
- When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… Abandon
- It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned… Bamboo
- All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,… Adventure
- Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any… Any
- His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and… Air
- I can imagine anything except having no imagination. Anything Except
- The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer… Attention
- Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt. Felt
- Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions… Bad
- Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein… Begins
- In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. Decided