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

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.

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

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.

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.

Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of mind.

The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.