“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

“The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life. ”

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.”

“I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.”

“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”