If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.