And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

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.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.