It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.