“ I love the predictions of a man right before his first child is born, Flowers said. They’re like little snowflakes. Right before the sun comes blazing out the clouds and melts those happy dreams away. Michael Chabon
“ I like the way she dances. She shows a heavy Pharaonic influence, I'd say, in the elbows. With perhaps just a soupçon of Snoopy in the feet. Michael Chabon
“ Huh-uh, Archy said, not trying to charm or work her anymore, the deep 1978 El Cerrito–apartment sullenness starting to seep out of him as he remembered how Luther and Valletta used to leave him there… Michael Chabon
“ How do I focus it? Joe asked him, lowering the camera. Oh, don’t bother about that. Just look at me and push the little lever. Your mind will do the rest. My mind. Joe snapped a photo of his host, the… Michael Chabon
“ Her correspondence had been like the pumping of a heart into a severed artery, wild and incessant at first, then slowing down with a kind of muscular reluctance to a stream that became a trickle and f… Michael Chabon
“ He nodded then cocked his head and gave me a sharp, policeman like look, as though realizing that he had been on the wrong page with me all along. I fell under the heading of Dealing with Assholes. Michael Chabon
“ He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. Michael Chabon
“ He could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. Michael Chabon
“ Fue siendo alumno de este hombre cuando empecé a preguntarme si los literatos no sufren alguna variedad de desequilibrio mental, desequilibrio que, pensando en el trepidante balanceo nocturno de Alber… Michael Chabon
“ Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing. Ev… 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. Michael Chabon
“ Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance. Come, he told her. Put your costume Michael Chabon
“ Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children. Michael Chabon
“ But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ. Michael Chabon
“ And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others. Michael Chabon
“ And like a lot of grieving people who keep a habitual distance from their emotions, he thought that being alone was what he needed. Michael Chabon
“ The greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast Michael Chabon
“ [A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result -- and have been since at least the time of Odysseus -- of the fatal… Michael Chabon
