The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Don't eat because you're angry, bored, sad, or stressed.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

Something happens because something happens because something happens

When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.