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.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.