“My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no boo…” — Martin Scorsese

As you grow older, you change.

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.