I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just,… — 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
Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to… — 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
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
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to… — 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
