Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.