My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

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.

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.

Good things come to those who hustle

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

Hillary Clinton doesn't like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

Don't let anyone say you can't do it.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.