For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Michael ChabonI have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.
Michael ChabonWhat'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 ChabonWe are accustomed to repeating the clichรฉ, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.
Michael Chabon