“People living in poverty and with sickness deserve something better than what they’ve been offered, which is the sharp end of a stick.”
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
"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."