p “As Leonard Cohen said, ’There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’

p “This little opus by Christine Maggiore is a crack of brilliant white light. It comes brightly onto a parched plain of AIDS science gone dark in our time. She writes clearly, for any reader, the simple truth about AIDS. And finally, it feels like rain.

p “You guys at the NIH and the CDC, get out your umbrellas. And you dry dogs at Glaxo-Wellcome, find a place to hide. Because, thank truth and beauty and all the other little quarks, at last it feels like rain."

p Kary Mullis, PhD

1993 Nobel Laureate for the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)