Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
Michael ChabonWhat smells strongly of crap to one generation - Victorian penny dreadfuls, the music of the Archies, the Lone Ranger radio show, blaxploitation films of the seventies - so often becomes a fruitful source of inspiration, veneration, and study for those to come, while certified Great and Worthy Art molders and fades on its storage rack, giving off an increasingly powerful whiff of naphthalene.
Michael ChabonPoor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!
Michael ChabonFor me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Michael ChabonI love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work- things I donโt know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever Iโm doing.
Michael Chabon