Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.