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One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.