“Why not add another yarn? That’s all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.”
“There are no endings for any of us, happy orotherwise, until we die. A fairy tale only endshappily because that’s the point where thestoryteller stops telling the story.”
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”
“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”