I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.