I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them,… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe." — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
![“I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8e/kevin-sessums-9486_activist_i-wasn-t-a-gay-activist-really-910213_910213.jpg)
![“[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/045/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-wa_160828.jpg)
![“There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/368/kevin-sessums-9486_awful_there-was-a-lot-really-awful-about-that_1221872.jpg)
![“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. It drives me nuts.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eae/kevin-sessums-9486_baseball_david-remnick-the-new-yorker-s-editor-in_636097.jpg)
![“Larry [Kramer] and I often disagree. There was the whole meshuggaas we went through about his donating his papers to Yale, and I disagreed with him on a number of things about that. You wanted a gay center.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b54/kevin-sessums-9486_disagree_larry-kramer-and-i-often-disagree-there_2722593.jpg)
![“One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ca/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_one-of-the-few-nice-things-about-time-in_687609.jpg)
![“If there was criticism about [Oscar Wilde], it was because it was written by a straight man who wasn't very educated about the gay world.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/64f/kevin-sessums-9486_criticism_if-there-was-criticism-about-oscar-wilde_2054234.jpg)
![“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/433/kevin-sessums-9486_california_robert-gottlieb-wouldn-t-have-published_1989289.jpg)
![“Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c72/kevin-sessums-9486_assuming_those-people-are-seen-i-assume-by-larry_2072553.jpg)
![“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b12/kevin-sessums-9486_disappointed_is-it-easier-for-you-to-have-straight-fr_2998013.jpg)
![“[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b00/kevin-sessums-9486_ifs_sometimes-if-i-am-walking-down-the-stree_338066.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/kevin-sessums-9486_editors_i-just-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-publi_606050.jpg)
![“We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/efb/kevin-sessums-9486_friendship_we-didn-t-know-each-other-with-larry-kra_608949.jpg)
![“I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68c/kevin-sessums-9486_believe_i-believe-we-really-became-friends-with_642749.jpg)