"My initial impulse is to say that the poems aren’t “about” me, but that response plays into the faulty assumption tha…"

"Reading is migratory, an act of transport, from one life to another, one mind to another. Just like geographic travel…"

"Speaking and writing in English carried with it the anxiety of being betrayed by one’s usage mistakes and lack of flu…"

"I try to distance myself from systems of literary production and strains of thought that place primacy on publishing …"

"I’m interested in teasing out the moral complications in travel, but I’m not claiming any moral authority on the subj…"

"I consider myself a Buddhist practitioner, but still a beginner, even though I’ve been meditating on and off for many…"

"Buddhist philosophy made so much sense to me when I encountered it. It also upended so much of my thinking — about th…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."