Matthew Poles

“That stuff is always interesting to me and I for the most part disagree with it, that, I can't relate to someone because I'm a different race, I'm a different gender, I have a different sexual orientation. And I always find it weird that people say that, but I'm like, but you're okay playing a murderer. Like, how can you relate to that but not to someone that's a different gender. So to me it's kind of nonsense, and I find that the more a person is real and complex and human, the more I relate to them, no matter what their background. Whatever identity they have.”
― Neil Druckmann

“A writer’s job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a real battle starts, you’ll always find that there is no bravest man.”
― Jackson Crawford, The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes