Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

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

I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

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

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

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.