When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life (ed. Thomas Nelson Inc, 2009) - ISBN: 9781418585877