Paul Kalanithi

She was upset because she had been worried about it, too. She was upset because I wasn’t talking to her about it. She was upset because I’d promised her one life, and given her another.

the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth.

“It’s very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does.”

If you had forced me to answer, I suppose I would have said a writer, but frankly, thoughts of any career at this point seemed absurd

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?

congestive heart failure

Complete removal could prevent that, but at the risk of damaging his hypothalamus, rendering him a slave to his appetites

The hypothalamus regulates our basic drives: sleep, hunger, thirst, sex.

“Always eat with your left hand. You’ve got to learn to be ambidextrous.”

First, detailed statistics are for research halls, not hospital rooms.