To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
I was not "shoe. " That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe. "
When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
[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.
I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
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.
I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.
There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.