Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.

Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.