It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.