We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. — 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
When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us,… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas,… — 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
That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there. — 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
I was so unhappy as a child in Washington I figured if I'm going to Yale, I am going to start a… — 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
[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
If someone had come up to me at Yale and asked me how many homosexuals there were in my class, I would… — 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
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