If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.