[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 could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me..

I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about..

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker..

It's always been hard to be gay in Washington..

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker..

If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There m….

When one person mentors, two lives are changed..

The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1….

There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But….

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human ….

You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember w….

When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David..

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

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer..

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there..

If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world..

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a ….

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name..

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale..

One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not a….