Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are not doing. There's a big difference.

When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David.

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.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

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

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.