Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2026

treating cancer

Friday, October 4, 2024

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Sunday, May 10, 2020

last in his West Point class


"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
- Ulysses S. Grant [1822-1885]

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Saturday, October 21, 2017

"I just push words around."


"We got to pry that singer loose."
- Rob Baker on acquiring Gordon Downie for his new band The Tragically Hip.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

grit


I took up smoking just to prove that I could quit.

Friday, June 17, 2016

mental illness


"Depression is one of the worst forms of suffering because of the immense feelings of shame, worthlessness, hopelessness, and demoralization. Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self esteem. Many depressed patients … yearn for death and pray every night that they would get cancer so they could die in dignity without having to commit suicide."

Monday, April 4, 2016

mantra


"I won't pick a fight but if you pick a fight with me or back me into a corner I will fucking kill you."
- Steve McQueen [1930-1980]

Monday, December 8, 2014

Saturday, January 18, 2014


"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
- Lee Atwater

Saturday, December 21, 2013


"When she was diagnosed as terminal, Jackie Kennedy took one last walk through Central Park."
- Patti Smith

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Friday, November 2, 2012


"I only do drugs so I can drink more."
- Dennis Hopper

Friday, March 30, 2012


"I'm either going to be one of the first to be able to outrun a cancer like this, or I'm going to be one of the last to die from it ... Either among the first to make it to shore, or the last to get dumped."
- Steve Jobs quoted by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs, p.551

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Saturday, October 2, 2010

"greatest good for mankind"


"... if [genetic] mistakes didn't occur we wouldn't evolve."
- Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus on cancer and evolution

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Teetotalism


"I only do drugs so I can drink more."
- Dennis Hopper [1936-2010]

Friday, August 6, 2010

testicular cancer