Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.