Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

I just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing).

I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.