Michael Chabon quotes

Michael Chabon is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter renowned for his inventive storytelling and genre-blending works. His novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has become a modern classic. He has influenced contemporary literature with his imaginative narratives and richly drawn characters. Here are 142 of his quotes:

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

Michael Chabon

Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other.

Michael Chabon

Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Michael Chabon

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

Michael Chabon

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Michael Chabon

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

Michael Chabon

I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.

Michael Chabon

To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.

Michael Chabon

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Michael Chabon

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Michael Chabon

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Michael Chabon

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

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

Michael Chabon

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