This city is not very friendly to the homeless.

We feel that it should be a public park and that people should be able to eat and sit and talk and chat.

They were just coming down on Sundays at the time, but then I realized that folks needed to eat more than once a week, so we thought it would be helpful.

With the help of other people, I give them their basic needs - toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap so they can wash their hands.

And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.

Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.