Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

You can't find "it" out there

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.