When the media had their monopoly and they determined what was news and what wasn't news and when they determined what commentary the news was, that's all it was. But my show came along in 1988 and blew up that monopoly.
A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.
I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.
But I have to go. Thank you, Kylie Galen. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for teaching me to think beyond myself. Thank you for everything.
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.