I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

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.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.