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 ….

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share..

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective..

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..

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….

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology..

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….

Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chan….

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder..

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing..

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see wha….

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,….

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….

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 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….

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….

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams..

The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake..

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free..

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest th….