When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.

There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.

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.

Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?

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

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