Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

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

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.