“Choose hope over fear.”

“Did my fingering turn you gay? I hope not.”

“I hope you die....P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.”

“Spirituality has always felt to me as private as sexuality. We don't go waving our wieners all over the place and we shouldn't wave our gods around either.”

“...Even to me, a sufferer, 'depression' seems like a fetid load of weaselly claptrap, a cheap and easy excuse for not participating in life.”

“If I have any faith at all, I guess that's it. Faith in the small love that keeps our family together.”

“Her lips remind me of kite strings and I find myself thinking about panda bears. Panda bears do not fly kites, I tell myself. 'I thought you were dead,' she says.Maybe if you taped a kite to a panda paw and scared the panda so that it started running, the kite might start to lift off.”