I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

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.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

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

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

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

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you.

I do six or seven films a year in order to sustain my lifestyle.

I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.