Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

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

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

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

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.