John Burdett Quotes
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.
Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.
