I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
I believed I was invincible.
I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
The more you trust Jesus and keep your eyes focused on Him, the more life you'll have. Trusting God brings life. Believing brings rest. So stop trying to figure everything out, and let God be God in your life.
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.
There have been times that we've had arguments with Brad [Dourif] because he comes in with very strong ideas and, as in any working relationship, sometimes you're going to disagree, and he always goes to the mat and I've just always appreciated that attitude, that he takes it so seriously.