One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.