I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

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.

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

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.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.