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

[ 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 all through history. We have been here.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

"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.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

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 read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.