I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

"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.

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

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.

[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

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

I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.