Stories Quotes

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true.

People who understand everything get no stories.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.

It’s your life story if you’re a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

But we weren’t a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn’t slide on anything – and this show is that story.

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.