I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Everyone's crazy, but few show it.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

God loves you just because He loves you.