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.

I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

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

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 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.

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.