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

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

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.