Quotes from Larry Kramer

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.

And you can't do anything without God. God hates us, you know. That's why so many believe we have to love Him so much. What feeble goddamned pussies we are.

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men !

Have you listened to your heart?

One should be able to have the man one loves.

All you want is Love. And if you've wanted love so badly, why haven't you had it? Does not that say something about The Wanter, not his World?

You're the cure? I hope you come in a portable version, like a laptop. Can you find me a boyfriend while you're at it?

The tyranny of the blood test.

When he really wanted to get juicy, he would write in Latin. Remember? I was seventeen before I realised that immissio penis in os meant sticking it in the mouth." "And immissio penis in anum , those who practiced that, he called us moral imbeciles and moral depravities, certain barbarous races devoid of morality. I grew up in constant fear!

We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.

It's happened before. It's all happened before. History is worth shit.

NED: I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E. M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, john Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjöld . . . These are not invisible men.

I have a life expectancy of ten more minutes I'm going to eat what I want to eat.

Who are these people, I don't want to be like these people, I don't want to be like anybody in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, ever, ever, ever. Imagine complaining about the price of food and getting up at 6:30 every morning to go to work.

Everybody knows what they want. They just won't examine their behavior closely enough and see what it means.

A word of warning …" "Shut up, Rolla," Durwood said. "… about our fair city. We have good faggot folk and we have bad faggot folk. Just like everyone else. I myself, being well-heeled and in constant communication with my mother in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, whose sensibilities I would in no way injure, am able to see all sides from on high. I hope you will feel free to seek my advice, should your own judgment require counsel.

Looking thirty, claiming forty, actually forty-five.

If clothes make the man, what were they making? A way of insisting they were men, more men than men?

While he fucked the Slave, hoping all the while that Master would watch only and not give vent, Fred attempted to remember his decisions: Had he not decided to write about a Voyage of Discovery into this World in which he lived? This Faggot World.

OK, kid, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I really love you, Dinky. I've missed you a lot. Your being away has made that abundantly clear. I can't live without you.

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

There is only one Long Day's Journey into Night. There is only one Death of a Salesman