Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.