“AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.”
— Larry Kramer
“The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.”
— Larry Kramer
“We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.”
— Larry Kramer
“When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?”
— Larry Kramer
“The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.”
— Larry Kramer
“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.”
— Larry Kramer
“And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?” Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.”
— Larry Kramer
“For he knew there was a pit of sexuality out there and that he longed to throw himself into it.”
— Larry Kramer
“The only safe place left is the dark.”
— Larry Kramer
“It’s the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don’t you?”
— Larry Kramer
“All your life has been a journey to find an identity.”
— Larry Kramer
“If Fred’s history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.”
— Larry Kramer
“How needy man is.”
— Larry Kramer
“One should be able to have the man one loves.”
— Larry Kramer
“Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.”
— Larry Kramer
“Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.”
— Larry Kramer
“Have you listened to your heart?”
— Larry Kramer
“It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.”
— 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
“Of the 2,639,857 faggots in the New York city area, 2,639,857 think primarily with their cocks.You didn’t know that the cock was a thinking organ?Well, by this time, you should know that it is.”
— Larry Kramer