Austin Grossman

“If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to”

— Austin Grossman

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

— Austin Grossman

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

— Austin Grossman

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

— Austin Grossman

“Who wants to make the language of dreams?”

— Austin Grossman

“In sooth, thy life sounds passing strange and shitty.”

— Austin Grossman

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.

— Austin Grossman

The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

— Austin Grossman

“Could you make a computer imagine an entire world? How would you start? A generation of people would wrestle with this problem—they're…

— Austin Grossman

“I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you.…

— Austin Grossman

“What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the…

— Austin Grossman

“You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing…there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where…

— Austin Grossman

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

— Austin Grossman

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

— Austin Grossman

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to…

— Austin Grossman

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to…

— Austin Grossman

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my…

— Austin Grossman

“You mean like in Archon? For the C64?" "Um. Right." Lisa scowled even a little more. A bearded guy at the back…

— Austin Grossman

I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In…

— Austin Grossman

“We were feeling something they never had—a physical link into the world of the fictional—through the skeletal muscles of the arm to…

— Austin Grossman

My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like…

— Austin Grossman

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl…

— Austin Grossman

“The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how…

— Austin Grossman

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes…

— Austin Grossman

“This morning on planet Earth, there are 1,686 enhanced, gifted, or otherwise superpowered persons. 678 use their powers to fight crime, while…

— Austin Grossman

“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the…

— Austin Grossman

“If you haven't been this close to superhumans, you don't understand what it's like to fight them. Even when you've got powers…

— Austin Grossman

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly,…

— Austin Grossman

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I…

— Austin Grossman

“Your powers are what you always have with you. It’s one piece of knowledge we all share here. No matter how many…

— Austin Grossman

Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,…

— Austin Grossman

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in…

— Austin Grossman

“I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird—convoluted, sometimes in a pointless…

— Austin Grossman

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone…

— Austin Grossman