My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

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.

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.

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

To move ahead...you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself!

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world

The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.