Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred..
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along th….
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California a….
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong..
I often think we're most happy when we forget the time..
There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most..
So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation..
Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!….
Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolera….
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated..
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about..
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sens….
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become B….
When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing s….
Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you g….
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug..
I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality….
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world ….
Hello Kitty will never speak..
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place that when I was young, I w….
It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine..