“ Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool. Michael Chabon
“ Jesus Fucking Christ, she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see. Michael Chabon
“ It was then that Max, who had never before in all this time considered the matter, realized that all men, no matter what their estate, were in possession of shining immortal souls. Michael Chabon
“ It was awful luck that my pot-hobbled spermatozoa had managed to rally themselves for one last mad fallopian adventure, and that five years’ worth of love, good companionship, and the exhilaration of… Michael Chabon
“ In the end, neither fretting nor bravado could distract him any longer from the thought that he was fatherless. He and his father had in their jocular, gingerly fashion loved each other, but now that… Michael Chabon
“ He’s making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don’t know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural. Michael Chabon
“ He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much--indeed to revolve around him--could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all. Michael Chabon
“ He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities… Michael Chabon
“ He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignifie… Michael Chabon
“ For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material. Michael Chabon
“ Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. Michael Chabon
“ Coxley, a small college on the other side of the minor Pennsylvania river that split our town in two. His real name was Albert Vetch, and his field, I believe, was Blake; I remember he kept a framed p… Michael Chabon
“ Comic books actually are inferior, Sammy said. I really do believe that. It’s—it’s just built in to the material. We’re talking about a bunch of guys—and a girl—who run around in their long johns punc… Michael Chabon
“ But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination… Michael Chabon
“ But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. Michael Chabon
“ But he had come here today to stand one final time at the top of one particular signal bridge that he had come to think of as his own, and tell another summer goodbye. Michael Chabon
“ Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it’s just not their fantasy. Michael Chabon
“ Because Trickster is looking to stir things up, to scramble the conventions, to undo history and received notions of what is art and what is not, to sing for his supper, to find and lose himself in th… Michael Chabon
“ And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an… Michael Chabon
“ All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we… Michael Chabon
