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

[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

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

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.