[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

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.

[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."

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.

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

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.