Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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?'
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
Every past is worth condemning.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand. . a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.