The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.
One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered. . . I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.
When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
Delicious. . . Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.
Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J. F. K. , and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.
I was a poster child. . . for birth control!
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
I love the way knitting brings people together.