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

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.

[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.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

I may not have a world of things, I may not have the biggest wings, What I do have is a heart of love, Because I trust the One above

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

We will have health care reform in America.

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.