“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and have been since we began drawing on cave walls.”
“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.”
“A few grass mats, some cave drawings, the heads of my enemies mounted on the wall ... it could be quite pleasant.”
“Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.”
“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”