如果生活的重点与故事的点相同，那么生活的重点就是角色的转变。如果我在第一个故事时感到安慰，那几乎是每个故事，主角都会改变。他是一开始的混蛋，最后是个好人，或者是一头胆小鬼，最后勇敢。如果角色没有改变，那么故事还没有发生。而且，如果故事源自现实生活，如果故事只是生活的凝结版本，那么生活本身就可以设计为改变我们，以便我们从一种人发展到另一种人。
(If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.)