Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own parti….

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -….

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself..

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel..

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest..

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed..

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do ….

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the res….

My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-America….

That is why most great love stories are tragedies..

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of b….

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I lo….

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories..

He is not to them what he is to me..

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with..

It's called faith because it's not knowledge..

You transfix me quite..

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. ….

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live..

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant..

From my own experience in dealing with the Nazi-grandpas, who have now clearly made a return, I would recommend a bit of fundamental imperturbability..