“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

“I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves.”

“You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.”

“If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”

“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."”

“You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.”

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

“It is ugly in this world, and when the killing starts, the same stick will beat the black dog and the white.”

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”