I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.