The only real nation is humanity

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

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.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.