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“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.”

Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.”

Michael Chabon book Summerland

Source: Summerland

“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys (1995)

“He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.”

Michael Chabon book The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.”

“But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.”

Michael Chabon book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.”

“The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.”

“Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“… But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.”

Michael Chabon A Model World and Other Stories

Source: A Model World and Other Stories

“Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

“Dutifully I thumbed the rides, hopped the B & Os and the Great Northerns, balled the lithe small-town girls in the band shells of their hometown parks, held the job as field hand and day laborer and soda jerk, saw the crude spectacles of American landscape slide past me as I lay in an open boxcar and drank cheap red wine; and if I didn't, I might as well have.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

“I think it was when I got to the butterflies -- in that brief, beautiful image comprising life, death and technology -- that the hair on the back of my neck began to stand on end. All at once, the pleasure I took in reading was altered irrevocably. Before then I had never noticed, somehow, that stories were made not of ideas or exciting twists of plot but of language. And not merely of pretty words and neat turns of phrase, but of systems of imagery, strategies of metaphor.”

Close Encounters http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62470-2002Apr4, Washington Post (April 7, 2002) <br class="br">On reading Rocket Man by Ray Bradbury

“[I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land.”

The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)