It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

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.'

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

Nothing burns like the cold.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.