In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.