When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

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

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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.

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