“You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.”

“Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.”

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

“Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.”

“If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.”

“Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.”

“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.”

“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”