I always want to write something better than the last book.

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.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

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

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.