Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.