I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

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

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.