Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Going outside is highly overrated.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.