Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Stories do not end.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

This is not the way our story ends. You know this'
- 'Stories do not end.'
- 'Ah, you are right, but you are also wrong. They end and they begin every moment. It is all about when you stop the telling.

"Some stories don't have endings," she says. "In some stories, there aren't even answers."

Stories never end. We end.

Avoid stories, unless short, pointed, and quite apropos. “He who deals in them,” says Swift, “must either have a very large stock, or a good memory, or must often change his company.” Some have a set of them hung together like onions: they take possession of the conversation by an early introduction of one; and then you must have the whole rope, and there is an end of everything else, perhaps, for that meeting, though you may have heard all twenty times before.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.

The stories we can tell each other have no beginning and ending.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.