I read an interview he [Rick Fields, former editor in chief of Yoga Journal] did for a Buddhist quarterly recently [during his four-year battle with lung cancer], in which he said that he's so savoring the moments of his life right now, so acutely aware of love and small pleasures that he no longer feels that he has a life-threatening disease: he now says he's leading a disease-threatening life.

— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies