The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.