Being gay is immutable.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.