Larry Kramer

“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.”

— Larry Kramer

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.…

— Larry Kramer

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.

— Larry Kramer

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head.…

— Larry Kramer

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

— Larry Kramer

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there,…

— Larry Kramer

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let…

— Larry Kramer

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there…

— Larry Kramer

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all…

— Larry Kramer

“There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.”

— Larry Kramer

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the…

— Larry Kramer

Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead…

— Larry Kramer

I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter…

— Larry Kramer

The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped…

— Larry Kramer

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was…

— Larry Kramer

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT…

— Larry Kramer

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and…

— Larry Kramer

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated…

— Larry Kramer

“And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone’s heart must be…

— Larry Kramer

“All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn’t take drugs, and…

— Larry Kramer

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the…

— Larry Kramer

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been…

— Larry Kramer