Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.