For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
Going outside is highly overrated.
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.
So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.
Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.