Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.