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

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 disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

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.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

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

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

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.