Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious..

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no as….

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you..

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big ha….

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossibl….

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a ….

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinter….

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels..

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, chang….

I am moonlighting for the Buddha..

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id..

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead..

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go..

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a big….

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt ago….

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

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

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think..