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

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.

My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.