You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.