"What has stayed with me is the knowledge that pleasure exists and that it is absolutely the thing to aim for."

"I also wrote Cancer Tales because I'm getting older and I knew I had to die and I didn't feel familiar with death. I never thought about death till I was 50 – I was never going to die, I was immortal. But now I think about death every day. And I wanted to know more about it. I didn't want it to be a mystery. I wanted it to be ordinary. And writing about it has helped."
Nell Dunn