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.

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

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

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

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

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 do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.