Books

“He lived for the moments each week when a lost reel of footage found in a dusty attic, or unearthed in a studio warehouse, showed up in his mailbox. Each delivery held a potential holy grail.”

“The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally…I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.”

“I’m happy working my side of the street.”
“Just as long as you recognize we’re working the same street.”

“Despite what the last fifty years of American policy would suggest, ‘They hit us so we’re hitting back’ is not a military strategy. I was taught that successful wars are waged for measurable goals. What’s the goal here? I’d really like to know. What does victory look like?”

“Rutherford tried to distract himself from the odor. He thought about how he would describe the smell later. Imagine how your hands would smell if you bought fifty pounds of past-due-date ground beef and paid for it entirely with pennies.”