Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

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

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

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