You bet your bindi that’s how big I want it.

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?

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

Passion makes every detail important.

I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.