Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.
Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.
You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared w...
I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each other’s bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each other, a tangle of limbs and lust and love, coiled to...
I listen to the rain talk to the leaves. She tells a story of love and leaving (isn’t that always the story? Isn’t that always the punchline?) She tells it softly like someone who has recently lost something that cannot be replaced. She closes he...
It is an axiom of modern social psychology that the stories that tend to get repeated are the ones that somehow have the potential to strengthen the communities in which they are told, or to enhance the relationship between the teller and the hearer....
The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was cautious about what eventually went into print. On more than one occasion, he told Bernstein and Woodward to consider ...
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just ...
Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want to sell them something--"Hey? What do you want? Money? Directions?--to realising that we just want to know their stor...
