Michael Palmer Quotes

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

– Michael Palmer

You’re taught from the day you start medical school that you’re a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror – and you know that power is flawed – it is very hard to get past that.

– Michael Palmer

When you find you don’t like a character, you just type four letters and he’s dead.

– Michael Palmer

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, ‘That was fun.’ It’s hardly my desire for them to sit and think, ‘What a great literary image.’

– Michael Palmer

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