No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.