I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days?

It's all right if people think we are idiots.It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.It's all right if we open the coffin and climb in.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.