I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.

One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable.

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.