Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.

Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent back then, you really didn't feel like you were living in the United States of America, in a first world country. You had a sense that life was a precious commodity you had to fight to keep.

Losing my virginity was very boring.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but it makes things easier.