"I'm on the periphery of a lot of despair, of course. You'd have to be stupid not to be. I have my moments when I'm not too thrilled about this whole deal. But at the same time, the songs have never come like this, so I'd have to feel more gratitude than anything else. I'm probably in the intensest creative period of my life." -- Warren Zevon, musician who has terminal lung cancer and is working on a new album, quoted in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.