The bar looks like the dirt beside the irrigation canal burped up an old trailer it couldn’t swallow.

I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn’t include gay characters in it.

You can admit that what happened to you made you stronger without celebrating the people who did those things to you.

I wondered if I was more addicted to being sad than I was to bourbon or cocaine.

So far the process has unfolded without a hitch, in meetings much like this one, while Cole stares out the sea-facing glass wall, wondering what’s become of his ambitions and his father’s legacy, a legacy that includes inventing a drug that revolutionized the treatment of HIV throughout the world.

Know this. It is not the living who are haunted by the dead – it is the dead who are haunted by the living.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

She did not feel she could be a writer because she lacked the courage to let anyone read her words. When.

She doesn’t have to work to blend in because in the French Quarter, all you have to do to blend in is dance with the chaos.