“If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in one word, civility.”

“There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.”

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world.”

“The connection was good. I could hear her breathing in the spaces between our words. How do you talk to the real person whose ghost has haunted you? How do you tell the difference between the two?”

“The difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something are worlds apart.”