Quotes from Larry Kramer

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

How to phrase it? Ma, I want to fall in love with a fella.

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

For he knew there was a pit of sexuality out there and that he longed to throw himself into it.

The straight and narrow, so beloved of our founding fathers and all fathers thereafter, is now obviously and irrevocably bent. What is God trying to tell us...?

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?

Buy a dog. Dogs are faggot children." "Nonsense. It is possible for two intelligent men to be turned on to each other in totality: emotionally, physically, and intellectually. Though I am about to become middle-aged, I shall not become a bitchy, middle-aged queen. I shall not turn sour." "I tell you, buy a dog.

No religion wants us. We're going to have to invent our own.

Cock-a-doodle-do! Any cock will do!

It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you?

Quick! what's the Proust line? – that we're attracted to those people who have qualities we hate in ourselves?

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

We have created our own aesthetic!" "You mean our own Ghetto.

the True End of not only therapy but Maturity is to learn to live with the inescapable fact that 97% of all human beings are getting fucked and 97% of all faggots are, too.

Was it not better to wear it, do it, live it, than suppress it? That only leads, on an international scale of course, to war.

There are three roles one can play as a homosexual: one involving being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop, the third involving looking for yourself in someone approximately identical to you.

Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.

No matter what any struggle accomplishes, time, life, death bring in their changes, and new oppressions are always forming from the ashes of the old.

And all analogies to the Holocaust are tired, overworked, boring, probably insulting, possibly true, and a major turnoff.

What seems to matter most to Larry Kramer is the incessant disruption of business as usual, the refusal to be silent or polite. This refusal is praiseworthy.

American actors, historical, familial, political, theatrical, move blindly ahead toward a future that never is, and never can be, clear.

The great error has been to mistake the darkness for damnation, to surrender to immobility or worse, to try to retrace our steps backward to a safety that has ceased to exist or never existed.