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.

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.

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

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

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.

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.