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

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

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

Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.