That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driverโs head. โHey, bus driver,โ I said. โCan I smoke?โ โMay I,โ said the bus driver. โI love you,โ I said.
Michael ChabonSo it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
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 was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.
Michael Chabon