I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.
Michael ChabonFor me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material.
Michael ChabonAs any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.
Michael ChabonMots clés pajamas
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.
Michael ChabonThe devolution of American culture takes another great step forward
Michael ChabonMots clés dry-humor
Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.
Michael ChabonMots clés experience writing fiction movies
For as long as I could remember, I'd been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book]. If and when I ever did, they would probably feel an almost physical sense of relief. I was like a massively incompetent handyman who'd been up on their roof now for years, trying to take down a gnarled old lightning-struck tree trunk that had fallen against the house, haunting every gathering, all discussions of family business, any attempt they made to sit down together and plan for the future, with the remote but ceaseless whining of my saw.
Michael ChabonFue siendo alumno de este hombre cuando empecé a preguntarme si los literatos no sufren alguna variedad de desequilibrio mental, desequilibrio que, pensando en el trepidante balanceo nocturno de Albert Vetch, he denominado "el mal de la medianoche". Este mal es un insomnio de origen emocional: el paciente se siente solo en todo momento -aunque escriba al amanecer o a media tarde- como si estuviese echado en un asfixiante dormitorio, con la ventana abierta de par en par, mirando un cielo lleno de estrellas y aviones y escuchando el golpeteo de un postigo, el paso de una ambulancia, el zumbido de una mosca atrapada en una botella vacía, mientras todo el vecindario duerme a pierna suelta. Ese es el motivo por el cual, en mi opinión, los escritores -al igual que quienes padecen insomnio- son tan propensos a sufrir accidentes, se sienten obsesivamente corroídos por el cáncer de la mala suerte y las oportunidades perdidas, tienen tanta predisposición a darle mil vueltas a todo y son incapaces de dejar de pensar en algo que les ronde por la cabeza por mucho que se les inste a ello.
Michael ChabonThe pajamas were patterned with red pinstripes and tiny blue escutcheons. Sammy was wearing a pair that had red escutcheons with blue pinstripes. That was Rosa's idea of fostering a sense of connection between father and son. As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.
Michael ChabonAlthough it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.
Michael ChabonMots clés rain
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