I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.