We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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