My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. – John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of Jo

The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years. – Edward J. Stieglitz

Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. – Lewis G. Janes