“Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.”

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.”

“We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard.”

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”

“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”

“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”