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

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

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.

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

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.