A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.