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

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

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 wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a new life. I'll change my name to my middle name. So I was known for my four years at Yale as David Kramer.

I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.