“Politics always change. Stories never do.”

“Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.”

“Stories never really end… even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

“I always had an interest in the story of everything. A little bit of an existential crisis always helps when you’re looking for a sea change. If I know anything, it’s that I never learned anything while I was talking.”

“The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.”

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

“Change is never easy, but always possible.”

“What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts”

“Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.”

“That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story.”