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
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
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
If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't… — 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
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
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that,… — 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 understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the… — 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 Image
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 Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
