..."That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up."
"
Well, he should have kept his penis out of other men's bottoms then,"
Janice says, lowering her voice though, so the nurses and orderlies in the hall don't hear.
~ "Rabbit at Rest", by John Updike (1990)
"You want to know why I don’t have AIDS, why I'm not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don’t fuck around. It’s as simple as that."
~ "Timequake", by Kurt Vonnegut (
1997)