When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.