My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it,'

If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.