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.

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.

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.

People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.

Time is what the clock says.

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

I was mad when I heard The Amazing Race wasn't about white people.