A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
