Dalai Lama has not coming to show us his kindness, so that we can enjoy his charisma, he's coming with a specific message for the specific circumstances of the world today.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

One of the interesting things about Los Angeles is that it's still supplying the whole of the world with its dreams through movies and songs and TV - often of an all-American family at the same time as the real Los Angeles is peopled by souls from Vietnam, Guatemala, and Korea who look nothing like the images being beamed out. I think all that is going to have to change and illusion is going to have to catch up with reality in that regard.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.