There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.