One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

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?

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

You owe it to yourself to be yourself.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.