Kavalier And Clay Quotes

#1. I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

Jim Shepard

#2. With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?"
"I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get.

Derek Landy

#3. Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

Cathleen Schine

#4. I would love to do something for TV ... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

Stephen Daldry

#5. I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

Judith Jamison

#6. My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.

Adrienne Rich

#7. Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#8. You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

Will Oldham

#9. The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

Michael Chabon

#11. I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

Harrison Ford

#12. When Torgon Greyiron returned at last to the Iron Islands, he declared the

George R R Martin