If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.