Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.