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

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

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

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.

[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."

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.