Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.