I Certainly Didn't Have A Nanny.

To Be Too Knowing Is A Downfall.

When You Tell People, Your World Changes, Your Identity Changes And People Treat You Differently. And Then, Not Only Do You Have To Deal With Your Own Emotional Response To What's Going On, But You Take On Everybody Else's Emotional Response.

When Your Life Is Being Threatened There's An Instinctive Urge To Fight. You Fight For The Time You Have, For Your Relationships.

When You're Dying, You're Liberated To Do What You Want To Do. You Give Yourself Permission. I Think Everyone's Experience With A Terminal Disease Is So Deeply Personal And Unique To The Person, The Context In Which They're Living And The Relationships That They Have.

What People Can Survive And What They Don't Survive Is Shocking To Me. Someone Can Go To Iraq And Be Blown To Bits And Survive. Someone Can Trip And Fall On The Street And They Die - That's That.