Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.

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

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

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.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.