"We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel- ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought." John Steinbeck
"Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." Mary Catherine Bateson
"Real life is under no obligation to be convincing." Neil Gaiman
"The story was the bushman’s most sacred possession. These people knew what we do not; that without a story you have not got a nation, or culture, or civilisation. Without a story of your own, you haven’t got a life of your own." Laurens Van der Post
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." Pablo Picasso