"It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man."
American novelist and memoirist best known for the Tales of the City series. His writing helped define late-20th-century urban fiction with recurring themes of identity, community, and social change. He has also worked as a journalist and screenwriter.