Quote

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Michael Chabon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Chabon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 24
Author
Columnist
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Leon Chaim Bach
Malachi B. Cohen
August Van Zorn
Fails
Tries
Failing
Moment
Moments
Trying
Every
Redeem
Messiah

More quotes by Michael Chabon

Image
We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.
Michael Chabon
Image
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.
Michael Chabon
Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
Michael Chabon
Image
He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.
Michael Chabon
Image
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
Michael Chabon
Image
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
Michael Chabon
Image
The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.
Michael Chabon
Image
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
Michael Chabon
Image
Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
Michael Chabon
Image
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
Michael Chabon
Image
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Michael Chabon
Image
He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all.
Michael Chabon
Image
A father is a man who fails every day.
Michael Chabon
Image
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
Michael Chabon
Image
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon
Image
I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.
Michael Chabon
Image
A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.
Michael Chabon
Image
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos –like amber in which a memory gets trapped.
Michael Chabon
Image
Novelist time is reptile time novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.
Michael Chabon
Image
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.
Michael Chabon