The act of reading is an act of empathy, a way of stepping into someone else's shoes.

"You can't manage what you can't measure."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Language is the skin of thought."

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.