I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

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.

I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.