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.

I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.

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.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

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

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?