You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

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.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

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

Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.