MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps AllREALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Before there were books, we read each other.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.

You live to poison every beautiful flower that you come in contactwith- I pray for the next girlyou may or may notdestroy

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

The earth needs our work… now.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.