You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

Oh, my god. I'd be a terrible doctor. I don't like to touch other people. There's a lot of gruesome stuff in my line of work to feel or to admit. I'm sure everyone's expecting me to say "proctologist," but actually no, I don't want to be a proctologist. Probably want to be a dentist, because you don't have to touch much of the other person's body, just their face or mouth.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.