The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it..

Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore).

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit st….

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story..

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me..

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead wh….

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing..

We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come ….

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting..

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story..

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improve….

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's wha….

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being….

You can insist on a different end to the story..

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories..

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community..

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name..

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell..

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell..

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic….

The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome that because it helps me..