The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.