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

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

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

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.

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

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

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