It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

Natural isn't something I get called a lot in Texas.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.