Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.