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

Despair is part of love.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.