In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

The teachers teach the children that are going to take care of us. These are our future leaders, doctors, lawyers. So, they need to have everything in their arsenal to teach these kids.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.