Kevin Patterson

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.