Quotes from Wil Wheaton

So don't you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You're loving a thing that's for you>.

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

Like all the other things I'd agonized over, the process of making the decision took more time and energy—and was more painful and scary—than the result.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

It's painful to recall, but I'm not ashamed, because all those thoughts—which I thankfully don't have anymore, thanks to medical science and therapy—were not my fault any more than the allergies that clog my sinuses when the trees in my neighborhood start doin' it every spring are my fault. It's just part of who I am. It's part of how my brain is wired, and because I know that, I can medically treat it, instead of being a victim of it.

I was lucky to have been a seven-year-old kid when I saw 'Star Wars.'

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

It probably wasn't until I was a freshman in high school and I met the people who became my gaming group that I finally found people who were weird like I was: that loved reading and playing games and not just watching a science fiction or fantasy movie but talking all about it.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.

When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.

I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math, as opposed to it being 'a thing I had to learn,' how that would have changed things for me.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don't like, or the existence of a gamer who's different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.