“I’m just a dog smoking a cigarette outside Pottery Barn.” –Chuck Palahniuk
“The couple was caught in the act of committing the nefarious sin [sodomy]. They were duly punished for this crime, but not with the severity it properly deserved…the layman answered that the Joya was his wife!…almost every village has two or three. But we place our trust in God and expect that these accursed people will disappear with the growth of the missions. The abominable vice will be elimnated to the extent that the Catholic faith and all the other virtues are firmly implanted there, for the glory of God and the benefit of those poor ignorants.”
- Francisco Palou, 1777, St. Antonio, California
“The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honoring–honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith.”
- President George W. Bush, 2004
“I did not know then where that river was headed, where that frenzied race would end, but something was calling me to go with it, saying that I too had to throw myself into those raging waters and lose myself, that only in that torrent, always on the move, would I find some peace. but I did not dare jump, I was always a coward. I would go as far as the riverbank, where the currents where roaring my name; another step, and the whirling waters would swallow me. ” - Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls