If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

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

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

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 tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all