I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — 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
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — 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
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
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately… — 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
I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not… — 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 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
