Landsman's Quotes

#1. Every hour that passes, another hundredweight of sand is poured in through a tiny hole in Landsman's soul. After his eyes are closed, what happens is never quite sleep, and the thoughts that plague him, though atrocious, are never quite dreams.

Michael Chabon

#2. He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.

Michael Chabon

#3. Bina and Landsman were twisted together, a braided pair of chromosomes with a mystery flaw. And now? Now each of them pretends not to see the other and looks away.
Landsman looks away.

Michael Chabon

#4. Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Michael Chabon

#5. People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

Hal Sparks

#6. The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#7. Jesus Fucking Christ, she says with that flawless hardpan accent of hers. It is an expression that always strikes Landsman as curious, or at least as something that he would pay money to see.

Michael Chabon

#8. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. Id like to be a lion ... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

Connie Stevens

#10. In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

Michelle Dockery

#11. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

Michael Chabon

#12. There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

William McFee

#13. Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

John De Ruiter