I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come….

I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, ….

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my fat….

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….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay..

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

[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 ….

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends..

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that ….

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse..

I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into ….

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….

There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black sh….

People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped ….

Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you….