“Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!”
“But it isn't up to us, mostly because none of us are good.”
“What, eBay isn't good enough for us?”
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat.”
“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”