I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

We're all going to die.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.