Deals Quotes by Kevin Sessums

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are…

— Kevin Sessums

I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at…

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Kevin Sessums

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as…

— Kevin Sessums

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…

— Kevin Sessums

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Kevin Sessums

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of…

— Kevin Sessums

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…

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Kevin Sessums

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball.…

— Kevin Sessums

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

— Kevin Sessums