"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."