It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Being gay is immutable.