Author: Andrew Sullivan

Quotes

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.'

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.'

- Andrew Sullivan

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

- Andrew Sullivan

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.

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.

- Andrew Sullivan

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.

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.

- Andrew Sullivan

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

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

- Andrew Sullivan

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

- Andrew Sullivan

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

- Andrew Sullivan

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

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

- Andrew Sullivan

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

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

- Andrew Sullivan

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