Quotes from John Diamond

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

I write about living, not dying.