[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

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.

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

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

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.