When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.