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

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)

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?

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

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One