"Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable."

“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.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.338, Random House

“The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.”

“I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.”

Source : Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2019.

“If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.”

“I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.”

“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.”

Source : Allan Massie (2013). “Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns”, Quartet Books (UK)

“The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.”

“I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.”