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With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.