Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

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

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.

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

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.