“Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously.Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.”

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”

“It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”

“No matter how much I love you, I can't become you and you can't be me. Until death, we will remain as two separate entities, but it's precisely because of that that we choose to join as one. Melding into each other and becoming one with you. What words cannot express we use our bodies to convey. Deep in our hearts, where lies don't exist. I want to feel you to flame this passion to its heights. I love you. I love you.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”