I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because... - Neil Gaiman

"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."

"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."