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 that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.

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

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

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