He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

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

Being the first born gives you great patience.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.