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

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 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.

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

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.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.