“The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.”
Dan Savage“One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.”
Dan Savage“The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.”
Dan Savage“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 joining a life that's already really good.”
Dan Savage“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.”
Dan Savage“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.”
Dan Savage“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”
Dan Savage“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 against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.”
Dan Savage“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?”
Dan Savage“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America