Turn of Phrase - Mr. Spock on Society and Gayness

"We're terrified of facing ourselves, we're terrified of what we'll find and so, instead we seem to waste time and energy with small-mindedness and intolerance, and with bigotry and with hatred and with fear."

- From actor Zachary Quinto as he considered the societal disparity between the legalization of gay marriage in New York and the suicide of gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer. Quinto, who played Mr. Spock in the last Star Trek film, recently identified himself publicly as gay.