The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
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.
You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.
A minor operation is one that is done on someone else
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.