--- title: "13 Thinking Quotes By Kevin Sessums" description: "13 Thinking quotes by Kevin Sessums. Plus more from Kevin Sessums and more Thinking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_larry-kramer-had-already-experienced-so_824073.jpg" --- > [ Larry \[Kramer\] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/larry-kramer-had-already-experienced-so-much-loss-by-then-from-the/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_larry-kramer-had-already-experienced-so_824073.jpg) > [I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-think-i-just-felt-a-sadness-at-some-points-in-my-career-that-what/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/kevin-sessums-9486_available_i-think-i-just-felt-a-sadness-at-some-po_2550872.jpg) > [ \[Larry Kramer\] 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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-wa_160828.jpg) > [ Tony Kushner has said that Larry \[Kramer\] thinks everyone always has to agree with him. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/tony-kushner-has-said-that-larry-kramer-thinks-everyone-always-has-to/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f18/kevin-sessums-9486_agree_tony-kushner-has-said-that-larry-kramer_1596584.jpg) > [ I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin \[Trillin\]. And I look. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/i-never-appear-in-any-of-your-work-come-to-think-of-it-calvin-trillin/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/243/kevin-sessums-9486_appear_i-never-appear-in-any-of-your-work-come_846227.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) > [ \[Calvin Trilllin\] 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) > [My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca4/kevin-sessums-9486_county_my-father-always-wanted-me-to-be-preside_580352.jpg) > [ Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati \[Ganesha's mother\], I say "Lucifer,"… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/kevin-sessums-9486_ifs_sometimes-if-i-am-walking-down-the-stree_338066.jpg) > [If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/if-someone-had-come-up-to-me-at-yale-and-asked-me-how-many/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/kevin-sessums-9486_class_if-someone-had-come-up-to-me-at-yale-and_3222332.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) ## Other authors on Thinking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 447 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 440 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 357 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 292 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 243 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 184 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/cassandra-clare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 161 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 161 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 146 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 143 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-taylor-swift-89132.jpg) Taylor Swift 137 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/taylor-swift/) ## 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/thinking/kevin-sessums/#itemlist", "name": "13 Thinking Quotes By Kevin Sessums", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. 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There's a big difference.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kevin Sessums" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-things-that-i-can-criticize-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/kevin-sessums-9486_bigs_calvin-trilllin-is-not-writing-about-thi_59424.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. 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