“ A surprising fact about the magician Bernard Kornblum, Joe remembered, was that he believed in magic. Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings. Not in the kitchen enchantments… Michael Chabon
“ A few peace activists, looking like peace activists all over the world, young, unassailable, and romantic, hand out roses. The message is old, the gesture likewise: the flower as a sign of good. There… Michael Chabon
“ A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand— Michael Chabon
“ He stank more than any human joe had ever smelled, as if he had been dipped in some ungodly confection of camembert and rancid gasoline brewed up in a spit-filled cuspidor. Michael Chabon
“ Так уж получается, что исследователи неизменно дают свои имена местам, которые изводят их или убивают. Michael Chabon
“ The kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely thr… Michael Chabon
“ You were right once, young man, Anapol said. That may be all the being right you get. Michael Chabon
“ When the two of us were at last free and clear of our past entanglements, social and professional, Sara and I were married here, at the Town Hall, by a justice of the peace who was a distant cousin of… Michael Chabon
“ War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs. Michael Chabon
“ Through a determined program of sheer dumb luck and liberal applications of THC I had managed never to impregnate a woman before, Michael Chabon
“ They wring their hands, should I do this, should I do that. They get seventeen different opinions. Then they do what they planned to do all along. If you give advice, they only blame you when it turns… Michael Chabon
“ The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low. Michael Chabon
“ Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to put at so much risk--his career in comic books, his relations with his family,… Michael Chabon
“ Only Aviva’s long habit of taking the temperature of her own racism, of her biases and stereotypes about young black males (or about the iron-hard perdurance of their grandmothers) enabled Aviva to se… Michael Chabon
“ My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker. Michael Chabon
“ My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in the event of their survival. Michael Chabon
“ Like 90 percent of the television they watch, it comes from the south and is shown dubbed into Yiddish. It concerns the adventures of a pair of children with Jewish names who look like they might be p… Michael Chabon
“ It was the autobiography of a man who could not face himself, an elaborate system of evasion and lies unredeemed by the artistic virtue of self-betrayal. Michael Chabon
“ It was at these times that he began to understand, after all those years of study and performance, of feats and wonders and surprises, the nature of magic. The magician seemed to promise that somethin… Michael Chabon
