 When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. |
| It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! |
| We control the content of our dreams. |
| I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. |
| I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. |
| I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. |
| I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. |
| I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. |
