I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Roads are a record of those who have gone before.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.