Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Geography is destiny.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted