“In America, it’s like a runaway train now. They might as well pass all these [pro-gay] laws now because there is no stopping it. It’s become so visible and big. I think it’s hard to put the gay genie back in the bottle; it’s out there and going to stay out.”

“Without baring flesh, exchanging fluids or even shedding blood, ‘Will & Grace’ has become the craftiest, if not the most radical, show in the history of network television — though not merely for its unabashed depiction of gay existence, or the risqué, multi-entendre-filled dialogue its writers slyly sneak under the censors’ radar. ‘Will & Grace’ is revolutionary for something so utterly conventional it would warm the hearts of bubbes and zeydes across America’s urban landscapes: sliding a portrait of a twenty-first-century Jewish American’s life into a sitcom about a gay man and his best gal pal.”

“We have had [same-sex] civil unions in this state [Vermont] for three years, and as far as I can tell, it hasn’t hurt anybody’s marriage.”