Dale Peck

Your life could be taken from you at any moment. Between AIDS and the violence against gay people that was so prevalent…

— Dale Peck

Losing my virginity was very boring.

— Dale Peck

Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense.…

— Dale Peck

Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related…

— Dale Peck

“You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was…

— Dale Peck

I always hoped that I would settle down with someone. Marriage, I could really give two shits about, as an institution, but…

— Dale Peck

I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.

— Dale Peck

“Children," Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed. "I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to…

— Dale Peck

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

— Dale Peck

“Drift House: Susan's response to Queen Octavia's sarcasm in regards to fading memories..."But we pass our memories on," she insisted. "I mean,…

— Dale Peck

“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different?…

— Dale Peck

“I hate it when people repeat the last thing that’s been said to them because they’re too afraid to ask what the…

— Dale Peck

“I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?" Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. "I'll assume you…

— Dale Peck

“I have a secret. And everyone knows it but me.”

— Dale Peck

We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation…

— Dale Peck

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time…

— Dale Peck

“There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as…

— Dale Peck

“Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college." "And then?" My…

— Dale Peck

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think…

— Dale Peck

“You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source…

— Dale Peck

Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit…

— Dale Peck

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

— Dale Peck

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really…

— Dale Peck

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

— Dale Peck