Who said “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story…”?

“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”

“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”

“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

“In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.”

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all 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's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”