I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

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.'

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

All you have is your fire And the place you need to reach Don't you ever tame your demons But always keep them on a leash

Sometimes life is filled with things outside your control

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock