. . . We need a place where the solo-inclined could learn to write a good monologue. Thanks to Michael Kearns, now there is such a place. . . . So, Mr. Unnamed soloist, buy this book, read it, and learn from a great writer how to write for the theater. As for the rest of you, buy this book for the pleasure it will give you.

—San Francisco Weekly

In this collection of thirty-four monologues, Michael Kearns challenges the actor to identify with characters that cross the lines of age, race, gender, class, and sexual preference. The monologues are about people who have lives beyond their health status and they represent one artist's response to the AIDS crisis. T-Cells & Sympathy stands as a testament to Kearns' philosophy that it is the actor's "responsibility to play all things human."