I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about. — Kevin Sessums Gay 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've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had. — Kevin Sessums Aberration Copy Share Image
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums God Copy Share Image
Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved. — Kevin Sessums Christian Copy Share Image
Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal. — 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 Fashion Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow… — 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
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
[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There… — Kevin Sessums America 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 Children Copy Share Image
I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot… — 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
[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
Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured… — Kevin Sessums Allegiance 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
[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great… — Kevin Sessums California 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 Declaration 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… — 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
"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my… — Kevin Sessums Being judgmental Copy Share Image
I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative. — Kevin Sessums Christ 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
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 Copy Share Image
I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space. — Kevin Sessums Catholic Copy Share Image
I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Gay Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. — Kevin Sessums Nations Copy Share Image
![“Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34b/kevin-sessums-9486_done_calvin-trillin-has-never-done-anything-m_987744.jpg)
![“I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/kevin-sessums-9486_activist_i-wasn-t-a-gay-activist-really-910213_910213.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/i/68c/kevin-sessums-9486_believe_i-believe-we-really-became-friends-with_642749.jpg)
![“Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e59/kevin-sessums-9486_calvin_calvin-trillin-was-much-more-of-a-mover_2595396.jpg)
![“[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72e/kevin-sessums-9486_big-deal_calvin-trillin-was-very-shoe-which-means_844986.jpg)
![“[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07c/kevin-sessums-9486_betrayed_larry-kramer-said-when-it-was-all-about_3195854.jpg)
![“"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/kevin-sessums-9486_different_weenie-was-definitely-a-word-we-used-at_2911949.jpg)
![“[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/360/kevin-sessums-9486_america_john-winthrop-was-the-man-who-first-said_3078197.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/i/c72/kevin-sessums-9486_assuming_those-people-are-seen-i-assume-by-larry_2072553.jpg)
![“[Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_larry-kramer-even-wrote-this-angry-lette_1749225.jpg)
![“Another example of what I have to put up with from him. But there was a time I was mad at all my straight friends when AIDS was at its worst. I particularly hated the New Yorker, where Calvin [Trillin] has published so much of his work. The New Yorker was the worst because they barely ever wrote…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d0/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_another-example-of-what-i-have-to-put-up_1035506.jpg)
![“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council…” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/kevin-sessums-9486_backgrounds_there-was-a-yale-even-before-larry-krame_1415214.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/i/433/kevin-sessums-9486_california_robert-gottlieb-wouldn-t-have-published_1989289.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/i/042/kevin-sessums-9486_editors_i-just-so-desperately-wanted-to-be-publi_606050.jpg)
![“There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/368/kevin-sessums-9486_awful_there-was-a-lot-really-awful-about-that_1221872.jpg)
![“Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f6/kevin-sessums-9486_disappoint_everyone-disappoints-larry-kramer-so-it_1039120.jpg)
![“Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/kevin-sessums-9486_aids_larry-kramer-had-already-experienced-so_824073.jpg)
![“[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay.” quote by Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-wa_160828.jpg)
