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.

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.

What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

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

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

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.