“It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.”

“Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end....For every life we know, we are expanded.”

“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.”

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”

“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread to own a piece of our past. And when we own a story when we put it in a tidy box and store it on a high shelf it becomes manageable so that whatever negative effects it's been having on us are in theory lessened.”

“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”