“ All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive… Michael Chabon
“ A patchwork of expedients, conflicting principles, innovations nobody understood, holdovers that ought to have been taken off the books years ago. Yet in the midst of modern confusion, fundamental Michael Chabon
“ A model of probity, a steady hand to reassure the grieving, a sober man—a grave man—solid as the pillar of a tomb. A good dose of gangster to the hat to let you know the councilman played his politics… Michael Chabon
“ A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation Michael Chabon
“ She deferred to her partner, to the virtuoso hands of Gwen Shanks, freaky-big, fluid as a couple of tide-pool dwellers, cabled like the Golden Gate Bridge. Michael Chabon
“ Saddlebags and called for water to be heated. He knelt and removed his outer tunic and rolled the white sleeves of the inner one. He rubbed astringent oil into his hands and along his forearms to the… Michael Chabon
“ It was not a confidence in his own abilities that seemed to direct Tracy Bacon so much as an assuredness of being welcome wherever he went. He was golden and beautiful, Michael Chabon
“ Because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I Michael Chabon
“ A momentary gain in one’s own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; Michael Chabon
“ You know I have no patience with nonsense, said the Northeast's leading wholesaler of chattering windup mandibles. Michael Chabon
“ When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts. Michael Chabon
“ WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT WOMEN, ANYWAY? And, lower: HEY, EVERY WOMAN, PAL, IS A VOLUME OF STORIES A CATALOGUE OF MOVEMENTS A SPECTACULAR ARRAY OF IMAGES Then: PLUS THERE’S THE MYSTERY OF LEARNING ABOUT H… Michael Chabon
“ The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. Michael Chabon
“ Such men feel imprisoned by invisible chains—walled in, sewn up in layers of batting. For them, the final feat of autoliberation was all too foreseeable. Michael Chabon
“ Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were… Michael Chabon
“ Kohn had played on an intramural team in college. He had been the second-worst player on a team that finished in ninth place out of twelve. Bengt looked a little surprised. What position? Outfield. Ko… Michael Chabon
