“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
“All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“I peered around the corner into the main recovery ward. All I could see were surgeons. Surgeons filling out those incessant forms. Surgeons bringing cups of tea and little sandwich triangles to patients. Surgeons laying in a lethargic stupor, recovering from eye surgery.”
“If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...”
“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”