[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straig….

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972..

[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginni….

In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. ….

I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would r….

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know..

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly..

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back t….

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed..

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay..

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in..

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative..

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives ….

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space..

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had..

I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as….

I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I….

[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California cr….

I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never ever been acknowledged in the….

Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all my straight friends when AIDS was at its worst. I parti….

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Arm….