I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.
I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
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.
Even snakes are afraid of snakes.
Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
I don't want to mislead people.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?