Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Being gay is immutable.