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

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.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

Somehow your heart still knows me.

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

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.

Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Life is, of course, terrible.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.