Occupation: Essayist Birth: February 11, 1957
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that w….
Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in ….
I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing w….
I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongr….
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen,….
As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because….
Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his prin….
...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down..
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective..
Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be….
I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics ….
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chan….
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quick….
I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life.
I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because i….
In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction..
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24….
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate..
All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder..
Travel is an act of humility.
I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time ….