“Last night I had the dream again. Except it's not a dream I know because when it comes for me, I'm still awake.There's my desk. The map on the wall. The Stuffed animals I don't play with anymore bu...”

“Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?Its the only way we know how to love.”

“Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of em...”

“If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?”

“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at ...”

“If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?”