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

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

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 belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

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

If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would have said I don't think there are any. There may have been a few who were shy with girls. You have to understand, this was the 1950s.