"a world in which the hospital industrial complex makes “obsolete” different bodies"

"“I always think that if I let go and go into the large outer space, I won’t find my way back. It’s just fear of the u…"

"Why would anyone write about illness except the ill? And at first, too, the experience is too close for the ill perso…"

"It’s curious that the Latin root of the Middle English word for tradition, tradere, means not only to “impart” and “g…"

"I was always interested in Egyptian mummies […] but later on, during the Vietnam War, when I saw all these bodies in …"

"Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, ‘human condition."

"I like wrapped things like Egyptian mummies, American burial costumes, and other archaeological finds."

"I can’t write myself except through reading others’ words."

"Friends change toward the ill person, some revealed in their strange and beautiful kindness and some exposed in their…"

"I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I do love non-fiction too, if I lay hands on any. I enjoy world…"