Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.