I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.