His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.
Michael ChabonIt's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
Michael ChabonLiterature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.
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 Chabon