To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it….

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories..

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story..

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories..

So many stories are determined before they start..

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontan….

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is all….

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely….

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one..

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind o….

My way of telling stories is kind of what I do naturally. It's no different from how I would talk to you if you were in my living room..

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine..

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like t….

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just….

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine..

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time..

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavour….

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it..

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have st….

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, ….

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories..