What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

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

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.