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

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

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

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.