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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.