I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.

Next to power without honor the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I have no political aspirations. That's it.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

You can have fun and do well. Just let loose a bit.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.