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

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

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

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 harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

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.

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

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.