Quotes by Dan Savage

“How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family without wanting to marry?”

“So to D.J. it didnt make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys werent supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.”

“I do think people should get married,”

“One hundred years, ... America will be last. Americas always last. Great Britain did away with slavery 100 years before we did and it was a vote, not a war. Pakistan has had a female prime minister and were still just fantasizing about a female president.”

“To keep the peace, I do show things to my family before they come out, ... Its like a heads up, heres what Im writing. If you really have a problem with it or youre never going to talk to me again, give me a call. ”

“At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to The Kid in a way,”

“Theyre used to it, ... It isnt the first time Ive written about my family history or dragged everyone into a book.”

“Its like wearing ill-fitting garments, ... They dont quite fit.”

“It hasnt changed the way we live or relate to each other, ... But there is this intangible, hard-to-pin-down sense of permanence that is hard to describe.”

“Theres going to be some places where youre treated with respect and dignity and some places where youd have to be a fool to live, ... So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they cant.”

The truly revolutionary promise of our nations founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

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

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

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and youre 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.

I didnt want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

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.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life thats worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, theyll be joining a life thats already really good.