Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.

You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!

I know! It means when two boys are really happy ‘cause they love each other.” She laughed. He wasn’t certain whether to laugh along with her—or cry.

How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

We take our fetters with us

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.