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I Think The Cardinal Rule Of Learning To Write Is Learning To Read First. I Learned To Write By Learning To Read.

Cell Culture Is A Little Like Gardening. You Sit And You Look At Cells, And Then You See Something And Say, 'you Know, That Doesn't Look Right'.

One Swallow Is A Coincidence, But Two Swallows Make Summer.

Cancer's Life Is A Recapitulation Of The Body's Life, Its Existence A Pathological Mirror Of Our Own. Susan Sontag Warned Against Overburdening An Illness With Metaphors. But This Is Not A Metaphor. Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

I Wanted To Explore Cancer Not Just Biologically, But Metaphorically. The Idea That Tuberculosis In The 19th Century Possessed The Same Kind Of Frightening And Decaying Quality Was Very Interesting To Me, And It Seemed That One Could Explore The Idea That Every Age Defined Its Own Illness.