I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

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

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 do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.

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

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.