Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

I have an interest in making first-person games.

It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!