You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Going outside is highly overrated.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.