I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

It's nice to see how the suffering does away in time. It always does

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

I like to [unplug] and enjoy being a human.