Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

I was going to be a scientist.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.