I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.