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.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

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.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

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?