Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?

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. It’s who you are.

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.

A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Make your writing memorable.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.