The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.