In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

— Christopher Bram

It has been a marvelous age of invention: radio, airplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

— Christopher Bram

It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

— Christopher Bram

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise, love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

— Christopher Bram

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

— Christopher Bram

Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

— Christopher Bram

Seventies macho was both a look – mustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

— Christopher Bram

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

— Christopher Bram

Sociologists say a neighborhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 and 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

— Christopher Bram

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

— Christopher Bram