Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.

it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380

You have to be an advocate for yourself. You have to tell your own story. Otherwise, it’ll just fade off into the abyss.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.