“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story”

“Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight.”

“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

“Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

“Won't you tell him please to put on some speed,follow my lead, oh how I need,someone to watch over me.”

“So are you telling me…" he composed his thoughts. "Are you telling me that if you told the last story again, and changed the young woman to a young man, then somewhere in history that same young woman would suddenly grow a beard?" Tallis laughed at the image. "I don't know," she said. "I suppose so.”

“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”