Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.