Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
I know that human beings are capable of anything.