"Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school." ― Dan Savage Topic(s): Death More From Dan Savage "The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he’s being bullied. I couldn’t go home and open up to my parents." "I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking." "One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought." More In Death "When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."― George Eliot "Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies."― Alex Winter "I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia."― Cher