“I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?”

“I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.”

“Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.”

“Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.”

“There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.”

“There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.”