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

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

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

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

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

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

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.