I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

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?

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the girl of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.