The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

When you fall, get right back up.