When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

You can't hint a man into bestowing the ideal gift that displays all the love, appreciation and understanding you feel is lacking the rest of year.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

I was born in '72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from '82 to '86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences - political or otherwise.

Coutinho is a joy to watch.

The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.