“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

“The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.”

“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”

“I believe in the complexity of the human story and that there’s no way you can tell that story in one way and say, This is it. Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing; the same person telling the story will tell it differently. I think of that masquerade in Igbo festivals that dances in the public arena. The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place. The masquerade is moving through this big arena. Dancing. If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world’s stories should be told—from many different perspectives.”

“The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.”