If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.