You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. — Richard Selzer Body Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Body Copy Share Image
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the… — Richard Selzer Be you Copy Share Image
You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular… — Richard Selzer Agony Copy Share Image
“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and… — Richard Selzer Love Copy Share Image
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed… — Richard Selzer Emotion Copy Share Image
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. — Richard Selzer Flower Copy Share Image
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish. — Richard Selzer Diminish Copy Share Image
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer Alive Copy Share Image
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams. — Richard Selzer Brain Copy Share Image
“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.” — Richard Selzer Creativity Copy Share Image
The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing. — Richard Selzer Art Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Achievement Copy Share Image
Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It… — Richard Selzer Brother Copy Share Image
“I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig… — Richard Selzer Young man Copy Share Image
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into… — Richard Selzer Behinds Copy Share Image
