“I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.”

…Everything you hate is everything that you created.

In this world, I’ve got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don’t notice, but that’s all right: you don’t know what it’s like.

Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say – when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it’s the entropy, the leak that doesn’t get fixed.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.

I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. … But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get.

I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other.