Words matter. These are the best Andrew Sullivan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, ‘Then there’s no hope for me, Mum.’
I purge compulsively. I’m constantly shedding things.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don’t know what effect it has until you hear it.
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something – there’s something wrong with them. They’re not really thinking.
I’ve always been a pretty candid person. I’m not a very secretive person; I’m not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn’t when I started.
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.