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

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.

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.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.