When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

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

It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.

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

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 me nuts.

Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?

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