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“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“The Copper Key awaits explorers
In a tomb filled with horrors
But you have much to learn
If you hope to earn
A place among the high scorers”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Are you telling me that I have to spend the last hour of my life surrounded by a bunch of fucking Hobbits, Z?”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

“Few young men know the Oedipal torment of growing up with an insanely hot, perpetually single mom.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada