Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face..
As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation..
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say..
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing..
I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who creat….
Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered..
In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still..
What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-….
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love..
The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other streaming into their n….
Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them..
Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's savvy enough to change his tune acco….
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign places. I would always make t….
What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and chan….
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith..
If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm m….
I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Kore….
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversatio….
I love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll see a stranger and you feel a….
I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good….
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have ….