When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.