Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

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.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.