My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

I'm not too good when exposed to people

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

Be of good cheer, your visions will be fulfilled in their own time.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.