People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at the very least-why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.