Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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.

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.

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.

Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Some people think technology has the answers.

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.