He said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.” “I’m lucky that way,” I said. “So are you two square again?” I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. “Well, he’s pretty square,” I said. “I’m just a rectangular guy.” With latent triangular tendencies.

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s hand in public

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.