I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.

As much as I would have liked to have kept my cancer private, I now realize that I have a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.