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The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Quote by Michael Chabon about sun, writers, life

The Superman story is one of the underlying threads of the story, coming from another planet, leaving his parents and his world that got blown up behind.

Quote by Michael Chabon about love, parents, world

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, fire, fire brigade, things, time, love

There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, age, olderness

Those things tend not to get reprinted. It's nice to be able to give them another chance at life by putting them on the web.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things, life

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about film

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about waste, time

When I started writing about the golem, I trusted that it belonged in the book just as I trusted that escape artistry belonged.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing

With the Antarctic section, the same is true, but I didn't examine closely why. What were the thematic links or why did all this stuff belong together?

Quote by Michael Chabon

Edward's the kind of actor who is always nosing into it, trying to find it, looking for it, and searching and Robin is, too, but in his own way.

Quote by Danny DeVito about searching, actors

Edward's very, very smart, has a lot to say about his character. Catherine as well. Catherine is a little bit more - she's really great with the two of them and I had a great time with all three of them. She's very real and honest and there's not...

Quote by Danny DeVito about intelligence, character, real estate, time

How does he do it? Of course, all these other movies that I was talking about that play into my love of movies.

Quote by Danny DeVito about talking, love

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

Quote by Danny DeVito about couple, science, things, time

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

Quote by Danny DeVito about greed, rightness, reason, things, time, contentment

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

Quote by Danny DeVito about absurd

I go out into the woods at night, the secret thing happens and the guy is obviously standing there naked in the woods. So I just went on a diet immediately. I got all those creams and started rubbing!

Quote by Danny DeVito about diets, night, secret, things

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.

Quote by Danny DeVito

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Quote by Danny DeVito about things, world, contentment

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

Quote by Danny DeVito about time

I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

Quote by Danny DeVito about stupidity, things, faith, contentment