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

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

Being gay is immutable.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.