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.

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?

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

The man just is, but clothes are becoming.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.