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

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

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

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

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.