I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

There's a path from your HEART to mine.

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.