When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

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.