Quotes from Michael Chabon

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

A father is a man who fails every day.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but that it's his right and privilege - the apparent ease with which he handles black characters, fully aware that he's been criticized for that, too.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

I said, "I need to hear something that's going to save my life." Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.