for everyone of the hundred stories I have written…
Page 7 for everyone of the hundred stories I have written in which you might see for five quotes. I likely talked to 10 or 20 people for corroboration background information or fact checking. But as my closest conversation with Oliver Sacks suggests the most memorable and meaningful interviews to me. We're not the ones that broke open or nailed the story, but rather the ones that veered off topic and into the personal may be about a relationship closely held belief, phobia, or formative event. The times when a person would say I've never told anyone that before.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit