I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

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.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

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.

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.