Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

Good stories are constructed, not found.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

I'm sad but excited for the future.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.

I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.