Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

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

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.

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

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

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."