“I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.”

“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.”

“I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.”

“There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.”