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

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

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

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

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

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

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.