When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

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

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

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.