Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.