I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

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 have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.