“And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?”

“You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. Its who you are.”

“Stories are how we connect. Evolution isnt seriously about thumbs but about how we use language thats what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?”

“Telling stories to make himself into something that he isnt. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.”

“At some point the body offers only disappointment.”

“You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?Like cat-porn.”

“Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.”

“I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even ...”

“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embr...”