In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.