“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”

“One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.”

“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”

“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”

“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

“The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.”