I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.