“For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Earth, Suffering
“I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Communication, Mistakes, embarrassed
“I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth.”— Ernest Cline, books.google.comTagged: Internet, Technology, Youth
“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: insults, Silence, Vulnerable
“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: History, Life, Destruction, Earth
“I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Reality, Life, Escapism
“I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: skeptic, Science, Logic
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Stars, Sun, Universe, Perspective
“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Research, Time, free time, Knowledge
“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Disappointment, beauty, Life
“I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Future, Escape, Worrying
“Humans were still just a bunch of bipedal apes, divided into arbitrary tribes that were constantly at war over their ruined planet’s dwindling natural resources.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: humans, War, Suffering, Violence
“If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: civilizations, humanity, Aliens
“You have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Life, Death, Gone
“Maybe honesty isn't the best policy after all. Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Honesty, Lies, Pain, Poverty
“I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Life, Escapism, Fantasy, Reality
“The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: country, Destruction, Death
“One person can keep a secret, but not two.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Secrets, People, Gossip
“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: masturbation, inventions, humanity
“The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: computers, Video Games, Escapism
“You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Death, Dying, Fate
“That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter B…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: God, Religion, santa, easter bunny
“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.comTagged: Reality, food, Funny
“I couldn’t bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: catfishing, Love, Online
“We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: human contact, touching, Holding Hands
“So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Men, Personality, looks, Dating
“The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? It’s time to leave.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Earth, starving, Destruction
“We spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: humanity, humans, virus
“If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, beauty, Earth