This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.