Quotes by Dan Savage

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

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

“One person simply cant be all things to another person sexually or otherwiseand unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long term relationshi...”

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

“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life...”

“I didn't 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. It's 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 that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be j...”

“Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absen...”

“The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.”

“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 ...”

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

“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 relatio...”

“We don't say to women, what do you mean you had a three way with two girls and a guy and you ate her pussy a little bit. You must be a lesbian. But we say to guys, you mean you [touched a dick]. Yo...”

“The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.”

“But just because we're conditioned to view some things as disgusting and immoral doesn't mean that some things aren't, in actual point of fact, disgusting and immoral. Human sacrifice, for instance...”

“Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.”

“Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.”