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.

I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.

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'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

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

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