The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.