Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, ' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

The way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for ISIS.

Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.