A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.

Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.

Would you like to try some cocaine?” Freud offered, “I think you will find it picks you up quite nicely.”“No thanks, ” God declined, holding his soft hands up to show his resistance.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

I'm not a betting man.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.