All Michael Chabon Quotes
- Man makes plans . . . and God laughs. Dark Humor
- My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. Bad
- It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. Accept
- See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. Funny
- Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. Dainty
- A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe.… Amber
- There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or… Betray
- We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… Accustomed
- They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving… Clockwork
- Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… Behind
- Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention. Attention
- He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would… Absence
- It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. Coming
- That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke… Bus
- That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan.… Ads
- Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. Age
- You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can… Control
- Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. Inspirational
- There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her… Bedroom
- The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. Father