I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.