I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first in… - Michael Chabon

The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true.

When I first set my sights on becoming a writer at age eleven or so, I wanted to be a fantasy and science fiction writer. That was my preferred reading material and that's what I thought I was going to write. That's always been there. You can even see little hints of it in Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonderboys.

Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.