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.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

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.