Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.