“Show Us, Don’t Tell Us”

“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”

“We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us.”

“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us.”

“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”

“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”