You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

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

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility, living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school. I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.