I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain.

The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?