You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.