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

[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 ….

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….

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

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

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 ….

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….

My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had read the first thing I wrote when it came out. My mo….

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

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

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….

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 ….

Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then..

[ 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 ….

[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal..

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 ….

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

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. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that….

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us..