I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.

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

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.

I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

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 asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

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 way.