I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

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.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

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

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

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