AIDS quotes

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own- goal scored by the human race against itself.

-Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
  In the Daily  Telegraph, 27  Jan.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

- Harold Brodkey
  This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one good thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDSand that is the wife.

- Edwina Currie
  Speech as Health Minister,12 Feb.

   Mitterrand has100 lovers.One has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one.Bush has100 bodyguards.One is a terrorist, but he doesn't know which one.Gorbachev has100 economic advisers.One issmart, but he doesn't know which one.

- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
  In the Sunday Times, 9 Dec.

The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problems of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and theyare fallingwhat can be done?† What can be done about the problems which beset our life? Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being donethe organism is preparing to rest.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Decay: Some Thoughts for  Actors'.

It will do us no harm to retool our imaginations. AIDS is a major revolution in how writers write† Our heroes and heroines will have to change. The only thing AIDS is good for is fiction.Writers will have to thinkdifferently.

- Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
  In The Guardian,7 Mar.

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since theVietnam War.

- Edmund White
  'AfterwordAIDS: An American Epidemic', added to later editions of States of Desire:Travels in Gay America.