Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.

I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.