I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.