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

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

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 had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.

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.

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.