"First Family on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House."

“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”

“I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.”

“How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.”

“Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.”

“We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.”

“Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.”

“It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”

“Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?”