Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date. - Jacob M. Appel

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.