"Must take absolute care not to be self–pitying or self–centered.
Always prided myself on my reasoning faculty and my stoic materialism. I don’t have a body, I am a body. Yet consciously and regularly acted as if this was not true, or as if an exception would be made in my case. Feeling husky and tired on tour? See the doctor when it’s over!"
(Christopher Hitchens, Mortality, Loc. 778-9)
