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.

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

I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.

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

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.

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 that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.