Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.
Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.
I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.
What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.
I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.
