My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

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!)

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

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

The Creator determines entrance and exit of every soul.

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.

Flowers are an education in a vase.