I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.