I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

Money talks, and bulls*** walks.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.