She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.
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 ChabonHe looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael ChabonThere's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
Michael ChabonWhen some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
Michael ChabonIn later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.
Michael Chabon