“What's worse than cancer? Leprosy.”
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ”
“It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.”
“I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.”
“You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer.""Did he show you slides?"We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.”
“The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.”