I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

- John Burdett

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

- John Burdett

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…

- John Burdett

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

- John Burdett

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

- John Burdett

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

- John Burdett

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…

- John Burdett

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…

- John Burdett

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

- John Burdett