I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.