Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
“I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.”
“Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.”