I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

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.

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

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

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.