25 Quotes by Richard Selzer

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from his body.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient’s dreams.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else.

I never intended to become a writer.