- “I’m not afraid of dying,” he said.
- “What I don’t want to do is to stop living, because I really enjoy living. I’ve regarded it as an adventure, quite a dark adventure, but an adventure nevertheless. And the good days are just fantastic and when you get some good news it’s absolutely exhilarating.”
- “The last thing I want is for people to obsess about the cancer thing,” he later added, “because I’m not really interested in cancer. I’m not really interested in anything other than living.”