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

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.'

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

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?

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

Those who hear this solemn call of life and respond with the corresponding supply win in life.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.