“This is not about us anymore. If the (California) Supreme Court lets us stay married it will be a hollow victory because we do not want to be the only ones on the freedom train. The Supreme Court needs to rule to overturn Prop 8 because what Prop 8 does – for the first time in American history – is take a group that is being considered equal by the Supreme Court out of the constitution. That is dangerous because that means that 51 percent or 52 percent of people can vote to take you out of the constitution.”

“Are you sick of hearing about the ‘social networking’ phenomenon, all those Web 2.0 companies with geeky-sounding names like Facebook and MySpace and Twitter and Tumblr and LookSpaceBookFeedPlaceWad, sites where ‘friends’ flock together like flies to cow eyelids and everyone’s young and cute and funny and jacked-in to the cultural zeitgeist, but you have no idea what it all means or why you’re supposed to care because you have, you know, a real life, yet you still have this nagging feeling that a potentially rich, exciting aspect of the culture is passing you by like an ice cream truck in summer?”

“Not only is it the most beautiful place to live, the most important thing to me is that I’m treated like a guy, like a regular person. They don’t ask for autographs around here. I walk into a store or a restaurant and it’s, ‘Hey Barry!’ They really take care of their little celebrities in this town.”