Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
