People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

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?

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

The lack of unconditional self-love usually breeds the hunger for attention.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that'll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.