Dan Savage

“You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.”

“I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.”

“I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.”

“But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.”

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

“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.”

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”

“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”

“If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.”

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

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

“When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.”

“Straight people are everywhere!”

“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.”

“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.”

“Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.”

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

“In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.”

“I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.”

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