In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.

At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.