424 Quotes by Michael Chabon

Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children’s understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make. The Killer Hook.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren’t really paying attention.

Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I.

And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn’t have to understand what you feel, and I don’t expect it. It’s enough if he understands what you just said.

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 his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church’s religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank – but that’s not the same thing. – Joseph Conrad.