Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys Quotes

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

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

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

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.