The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.