Was doing some reading tonight and came across an arrestingly true sentence:

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essay on Fantasy and Science Fiction (London: Women’s Press, 1989), 25.

I was reading J. Chatraw’s Telling a Better Story (highly recommended) and am indebted to him for the reference.