Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

Good stories are constructed, not found.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

I'm sad but excited for the future.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

Without a song, life is a sorrow.

Every Child Deserves A Chance To Live Their Own Dream

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

Our brand is sassy people ripping apart technologists, then going to a party with them.

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.