“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”

“Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better. ”

“Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. ”

“Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradicati...”

“Many experts dont possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldnt be allowed to hold back men and women who do ...”

“What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph...”

“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.”

“But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A...”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“In his stupor, the forest had begun to change. The sounds were confusing, his eyes blurring in his exhaustion. He tugged another branch out of the way, gasping as a jagged twig poked through the pa...”

“Could be. Im a pretty dangerous dude when Im cornered.Yeah, said the voice from under the table, you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”