Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.

The spirit is the thing I most love about my kind of geekdom.

Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.