Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin..

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing..

Often, others see you, as you see yourself.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different.

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds b….

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson..

...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147).

I am nothing, and not even that..

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the p….

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly..

I was stained by failure..

Success is being nothing but a quote..

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

Tell your story with your whole heart..

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal..

You don't get nothing and like it..

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator),….

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat..