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It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I am dying, but the state remains.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.