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 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.

The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.

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.

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

I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.

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