Evan Favreau

“My sister Amy lives above a deaf girl and has learned quite a bit of sign language. She taught some to me and so now I am able to say, “SANTA HAS A TUMOR IN HIS HEAD THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE. MAYBE IT WILL GO AWAY TOMORROW BUT I DON’T THINK SO.”
― David Sedaris

“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter