Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.

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

I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.