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?

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

I don't write about my life in my column.

My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. They were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. But by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "You're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." They attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.