Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.