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

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

One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

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

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

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.