I have an awfully good life.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.