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.

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'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.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

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

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

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