I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.