"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?"

"A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves."

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

"My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses."

"In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

"It's amazing that this is all happening to Lost in Space."

"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."

"But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone."