Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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.