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

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.