I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.