I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.