The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

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

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.