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

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.

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.

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

Friendship built on top of Lies and betrayal is always shaky and it never last..

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.