To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

We live in stories the way fish live in water.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears.

Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Hope lights up our darkness.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

The most important thing is to DARE.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.