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

I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

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 comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

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.

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