A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

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?

I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.