My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

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.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

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.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.