--- title: "16 People Quotes By Kevin Sessums" description: "16 People quotes by Kevin Sessums. Plus more from Kevin Sessums and more People sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg" --- > [ \[Calvin Trilllin\] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-things-that-i-can-criticize-i/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg) > [ I talked to \[Larry\] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-talked-to-larry-kramer-a-little-bit-about-it-while-i-was-writing/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b7/kevin-sessums-9486_bits_i-talked-to-larry-kramer-a-little-bit-ab_1890296.jpg) > [Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/hollywood-needs-peripheral-people-like-me-you-re-not-of-that-world/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/kevin-sessums-9486_hollywood_hollywood-needs-peripheral-people-like-m_795140.jpg) > [ When I graduated \[from Yale\], I went back to Larry \[Kramer\]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/when-i-graduated-from-yale-i-went-back-to-larry-kramer-but-when-i-go/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/kevin-sessums-9486_call-me_when-i-graduated-from-yale-i-went-back-t_1108157.jpg) > [I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-don-t-think-everybody-s-gay-but-i-think-a-lot-more-people-are-than/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_i-don-t-think-everybody-s-gay-but-i-thin_2438567.jpg) > [I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-think-it-s-a-jewish-yale-custom-i-wasn-t-aware-that-other-people/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7b/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_i-think-it-s-a-jewish-yale-custom-i-wasn_1865008.jpg) > [Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/some-people-say-you-have-to-be-a-christian-to-be-saved-i-had-to-stop/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/kevin-sessums-9486_christian_some-people-say-you-have-to-be-a-christi_1789076.jpg) > [To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/to-some-people-knowledge-and-science-are-everything-to-me-god-is/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/kevin-sessums-9486_god_to-some-people-knowledge-and-science-are_426535.jpg) > [ Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry \[Kramer\], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/is-it-easier-for-you-to-have-straight-friends-larry-kramer-since-you/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b12/kevin-sessums-9486_disappointed_is-it-easier-for-you-to-have-straight-fr_2998013.jpg) > [ One of the few nice things about \[time in Yale\] was you got to know people before there were labels on them,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/one-of-the-few-nice-things-about-time-in-yale-was-you-got-to-know/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_one-of-the-few-nice-things-about-time-in_687609.jpg) > [People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/people-who-aren-t-addicts-want-to-know-why-i-became-one-they-ask/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/kevin-sessums-9486_acceptance_people-who-aren-t-addicts-want-to-know-w_1356636.jpg) > [ Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry \[Kramer\] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/those-people-are-seen-i-assume-by-larry-kramer-as-writing-partly/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c72/kevin-sessums-9486_assuming_those-people-are-seen-i-assume-by-larry_2072553.jpg) > [Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/back-in-kansas-city-i-associated-harvard-with-sort-of-gnarly-guys-who/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96f/kevin-sessums-9486_capes_back-in-kansas-city-i-associated-harvard_2416503.jpg) > [I think basically what The American People is about is that we've been here from the very beginning, and that has never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-think-basically-what-the-american-people-is-about-is-that-we-ve/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58d/kevin-sessums-9486_american-people_i-think-basically-what-the-american-peop_2579526.jpg) > [I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-get-rejections-from-the-new-yorker-when-i-had-to-give-a-little-talk/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/kevin-sessums-9486_appropriate_i-get-rejections-from-the-new-yorker-whe_123524.jpg) > [ There was a Yale even before Larry \[Kramer\] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/there-was-a-yale-even-before-larry-kramer-and-i-got-there-and-there/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/kevin-sessums-9486_backgrounds_there-was-a-yale-even-before-larry-krame_1415214.jpg) ## Other authors on People - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 856 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 843 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 724 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 624 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 488 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 367 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. 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Maxwell 249 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/john-c-maxwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 244 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/terry-pratchett/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 223 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/bill-gates/) ## More 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-things-that-i-can-criticize-i/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-get-rejections-from-the-new-yorker-when-i-had-to-give-a-little-talk/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [ \[Larry Kramer\] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-was-gay-he-thinks-max-schmeling/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-was-raped-that-was-a-hard-thing-to-write-about-i-never-owned-that/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/sometimes-if-i-am-walking-down-the-street-and-thinking-about-my/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/to-some-people-knowledge-and-science-are-everything-to-me-god-is/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-was-not-shoe-that-s-a-misuse-of-the-term-shoe-which-is-derived-from/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/my-father-always-wanted-me-to-be-president-of-the-united-states-and/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-just-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-published-in-new-yorker-and-i-d-so/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [ We didn't know each other \[with Larry Kramer at Yale\], but we had a lot of mutual friends. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/we-didn-t-know-each-other-with-larry-kramer-at-yale-but-we-had-a-lot/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/david-remnick-the-new-yorker-s-editor-in-chief-is-about-as-interested/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [ I believe we really became friends \[with Larry Kramer\] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-believe-we-really-became-friends-with-larry-kramer-when-we-bonded/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [ One of the few nice things about \[time in Yale\] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/one-of-the-few-nice-things-about-time-in-yale-was-you-got-to-know/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-wrote-an-essay-too-and-mine-started-something-like-when-i-was-asked/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) > [When one person mentors, two lives are changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/when-one-person-mentors-two-lives-are-changed/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/kevin-sessums/#itemlist", "name": "16 People Quotes By Kevin Sessums", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. 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