Quotes from Andrew Sullivan

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

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."

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

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.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

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.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

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.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

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.