“The first thing most people say to themselves when they're diagnosed w...” — Norah Vincent Quote

The first thing most people say to themselves when they're diagnosed with a serious disease is, 'Why me?' It's a knee-jerk human response, and I was no exception.

The liberal special-interest groups that squeal most loudly for their rights are the same ones that decry the military spending that guarantees those rights.

There are at least two circumstances under which journalists have both a right and an obligation to publish details about a public person's private life: first, if the behaviors or events in question are illegal or immoral; and second, if it can be shown that the subject lied publicly about them.

The truth does exist somewhere out there, but we are incapable of perceiving it except from our own inherently skewed points of view.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

When I was in 4th grade, my mom was diagnosed with oral cancer. It was not looking good, it was serious when they found it. Obviously, I didn't know much about what was going on. I remember feeling a lot of guilt about it, feeling like I somehow contributed to it. I think that's just something that kids often do.

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.