Kevin Sessums

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

— Kevin Sessums

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

— 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…

— 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,"…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kevin Sessums

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

— Kevin Sessums

One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them,…

— Kevin Sessums

I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I…

— Kevin Sessums

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

— Kevin Sessums

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

— Kevin Sessums

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between…

— Kevin Sessums

[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

— Kevin Sessums

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

— Kevin Sessums

I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

— Kevin Sessums

The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and…

— Kevin Sessums

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

— Kevin Sessums

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't…

— Kevin Sessums

Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all…

— Kevin Sessums

Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.

— Kevin Sessums