The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Accept that you will not always deal with situations with polished sophistication but trust that you have the power and exercise the will to improve how you cope.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Sleep is no mean art.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.