When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

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

I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.