Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

memory is the only way home.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.