"When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we'll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, who bring people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost."

"Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us. It's how we digest our lives. Our experience.....You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,the same way this theater seems to digest people....Other events-the ones you can't digest-they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can't talk about, they rot you from the inside out....But the stories that you can digest, that you can tell-you can take control of those past moments. You can shape them, craft them. Master them. And use them to your own good.
These are stories as important as food.
These are stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt. To help exhaust that past moments for them and for you. Until that moment is dead. Consumed. Digested. Absorbed.
It's how we can eat all the shit that happens"
-Chuck Palahuniuk "Haunted"