"He'd obviously hoped to create a moment, the kind that leads you to change your life, but it didn't quite work. If you are a doctor and someone hands you a diseased lung, you might very well examine it and make some radical life changes. If, on the other hand, you are not a doctor, you're liable to do what I did, which was to stand there thinking, Damn, this lung is heavy."

-David Sedaris, on quitting smoking.

this has been running through my mind for the past few days, but it still makes me laugh in the end.