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My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.