424 Quotes by Michael Chabon

She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.

Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.

Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, my grandfather and his emotions were never really on speaking terms.

At the possibility of truly being seen, something in his chest seemed to snap open like a parachute.

When it works, what you get is not a collection of references, quotes, allusions, and cribs but a whole, seamless thing, both familiar and new: a record of the consciousness that was busy falling in love with those moments in the first place.

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 the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.

Then he saw that in gun-colored ink on the inside of her left arm, she bore the recent history, in five digits, of her life, her family, and the world. He.

The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.