The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

The most difficult thing about writing

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

I'm running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.

Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories.

That which is not yet known comes out of that which is not yet here.