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

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

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

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

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all my straight friends when AIDS was at its worst. I particularly hated the New Yorker, where Calvin [Trillin] has published so much of his work. The New Yorker was the worst because they barely ever wrote about AIDS. I used to take out on Calvin my real hatred for the New Yorker.

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.