Michael Chabon quotes

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. (Michael Chabon)
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
Michael Chabon
Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.
Michael Chabon
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
Michael Chabon
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
Michael Chabon
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 each other.
Michael Chabon
Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself.
Michael Chabon
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
Michael Chabon
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.
Michael Chabon
I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.
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He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. (Michael Chabon)
... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.
Michael Chabon
I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.
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I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.
Michael Chabon
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.
Michael Chabon
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
Michael Chabon
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Michael Chabon
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
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 you find yourself in.
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No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
Michael Chabon
Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt. (Michael Chabon)
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael Chabon
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.
Michael Chabon
But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.
Michael Chabon
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.
Michael Chabon