Myths circulate like gifts without givers, and no myth teller (cares to) knows where they come from or who invented them. - Trinh T. Minh-ha

Substantial creative achievement demands not necessarily genius, but acumen, bent, persistence, time.

A story is not just a story. Once the forces have been aroused and set into motion, they can’t simply be stopped at someone’s request. Once told, the story is bound to circulate; humanized, it may have a temporary end, but its effects linger on and its end is never truly an end.

The task of criticism is to bring to light the enigmatic content of a work by reestablishing the ties between it and its author or reconstituting the latter’s thought and experience through her/ his works.