Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

Good stories are constructed, not found.

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

I'm sad but excited for the future.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Iraq's government is at a stalemate.

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.