I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.

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

One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.

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

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

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