Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Fill yourself with beauty to overflowing.

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Doubts are necessary

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.