I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

I'm not sure what I was good at as a kid. I was good at playing with Legos.

I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.

Engineering is a creative practice.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.