What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

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

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.