“Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, m...” — Andrea Barrett Quote

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

It's important to be able to speak directly to people, have real conflict and resolve it.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.