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.

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.

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.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

Your life is your own responsibility.

Lovely as the morning

God primes the pump of obligation.

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

Concentrate on your task.

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.