Quotes By Dan Savage

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

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.

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.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

No, I'm not good looking.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

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?

I don't write about my life in my column.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

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

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

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.

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done.

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.