Quotes from Brian Boyd

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Interviewer: What surprises you in life? Nabokov: ...the marvel of consciousness- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.

Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future.