A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

Of that time, there is still much we do not know.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

May my children and descendants know God and keep His ways.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.