"Storytelling gives meaning to our lives, if by 'meaning' we imply an intellectual grasp on events. For storytelling does not necessarily help us understand the world conceptually or cognitively; rather, it seems to work at a 'protolinguistic' level, changing our experience of events that have befallen us by symbolically restructuring them."  (Michael Jackson, The Politics of Storytelling, pp. 15-16).

“Quand on brûle ses anciennes divinités, les nouvelles n’en finissent pas de vous paraître secrètement usurpatrices ou subversives ; on perd pied sur des terres qui ne sont que des marécages. » (Tchicaya U Tam’Si, La main sèche. Robert Laffont, Paris 1980, p.62).