"Most of the mistakes that people our age make are born out of the attempt to both have one's cake and eat it too. My mistakes stem from the opposite: a profound paranoia that there is no cake and that even if there were cake, if I sought it in earnest, I would be cosmically, somehow, punished."

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"In fifty years, the people who are against gay marriage now are going to be looked at like we look at Strom Thurmond's segregationists. It's bigotry, plain and simple."

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"Government is like a lingerie model. They're both less effective when covered up."