Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.