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

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had read the first thing I wrote when it came out. My mother still keeps her copy of Faggots hidden away in a bottom drawer.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

It's always been hard to be gay in Washington.