When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

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.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!