When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.