I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

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.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.