"You can't fight for your life and sanity and then leave the battlefield and go home and live happily ever after."

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

"People say, 'What is the most important thing for a writer?' I say, 'Don't be boring.'"

"So it goes."

"We are all in this together, so let's try to be nice to each other."