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

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.

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'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.