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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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