Michael Chabon

“It's the unknown that draws people.”

“Childhood is a branch of cartography.”

“Love is like falconry. You don't see it. You don't keep it. You feed it.”

“There is no such thing as a writer's block. It's a failure of nerve.”

“Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”

“All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”

“The harder you slam a door, the more likely it is to bounce back open.”

“In the end, we are all just stories.”

“Parenthood is a conspiracy of silence.”

“Like most of the men of his generation, he had been taught that the deepest poetry of the male experience lay in the silence of the soul.”

“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”

“We are all of us, in our own single lives, temporary.”

“A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.”

“It's a gift of the gods to be able to paint, or to write poetry, but it's a gift of man to be able to smell a good steak.”

“A true escapist is not someone who wants to escape from reality but from the limitations of reality.”

“Every story is a ghost story.”

“The trick of being a good writer is to make it look easy.”