424 Quotes by Michael Chabon

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 day.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough?

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.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.