What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

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 aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.