Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

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.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Sometimes the best gifts aren't convenient at the time.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.