I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe.".

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

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

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

I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontr….

I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doin….

I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if….

Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew ….

[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 ….

When one person mentors, two lives are changed..

Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way..

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

[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 ….

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

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not.….

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..

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 ….

"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..

Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belo….

[ 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 ….

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….