“This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.”

“We have to learn to walk before we can run”

“We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.”

“We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.”