The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

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

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

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

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