The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

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.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.