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

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

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?

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

From within the abysmal depths of a heart, the soul echoes A Lover's Tale of an Eternal Love (Through the Darkness, WIth Love - Vol. 1)

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Sometimes you have to take the harder course of action.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.

I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.