Michael Chabon Quotes

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing

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

He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future.

[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.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.