"If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Stories Quotes

“I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.”
“Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.”
“I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.”

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“I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.”
“I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.”

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“If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.”
“I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.”
“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.”

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