My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.