"It's all a matter of keeping my eyes open. Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there...so that creation need not play to an empty house."
"This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time."
"There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it."