The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.