Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.