"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

"...only the story...can continue beyond the war and the warrior. It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters. It is the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggarsinto the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story;rather it is the story that owns us and directs us."

"Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality."