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

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'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.

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

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.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

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