“They are trying to … stop gay people from marrying, like somehow Portia and I staying at home watching ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is affecting anybody.”

“I vow to care for you as you’ve cared for me … and to love you as my husband and the only man in my life.”

“I have two kids – one is 6 and one is 12 – and my 12-year-old daughter has not known … anything but George Bush. At least (adults) have a memory of somebody different, and a prospect that there will be somebody different in the future. It’s been horrible for her to listen to the president, and listen to this fear-based, warmongering, torture-supporting, homophobic, anti-immigrant bullshit. … It’s going to be really close in Florida. But my hope is that when Barack Obama wins, we’re going to know that those were LGBT votes. And last time they used us as a wedge, but this time we’re going to be the edge.”

“Brokeback Mountain … is the source of constant irritation in my private life. There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for ‘fixing’ the story. They certainly don’t get the message that if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it. Most of these ‘fix-it’ tales have the character Ennis finding a husky boyfriend and living happily ever after, or discovering the character Jack is not really dead after all, or having the two men’s children meet and marry, etc., etc. … Beneath every mangled rewrite is the unspoken assumption that because they are men they can write this story better than a woman can.”