In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

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.

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.

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

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

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