Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.