A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

— Christopher Bram

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

— Christopher Bram

Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at Outwrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

— Christopher Bram

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Main’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

— Christopher Bram

Art is long and life is short.

— Christopher Bram

A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.

— Christopher Bram

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to third hand clichés.

— Christopher Bram

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

— Christopher Bram

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

— Christopher Bram

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

— Christopher Bram