While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

I learned there were lots of realities in the world.

This has to be a fairy tale because I never read a book like his.