Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

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 can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

I was never without a book in my hand.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.