I am with you on flowers, they are really already dead when they are given, to me, a house plant or a pot of orchids, is so much nicer, or better yet, a volume of poetry, a great bottle of red wine like a Brunello — that is romantic.

I am a hopeful romantic, but I hate anything sappy. And when it comes to Dan Savage, he makes me wish I was a gay man, I love him.