I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

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.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Being gay is immutable.