Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.