My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all
Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.