We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy. – Author Unknown

‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. – Ovid