When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.
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.