If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.