I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

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

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.