"I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed romances, or unrequited relationships that occur in games. I think that creates more player tension."

“I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.”

“When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.”

“I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.”

“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

“So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

“Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”

“The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

“It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a ‘scientific’ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.”