I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

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.

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

Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

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

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.