--- title: "12 Never Quotes By Pico Iyer" description: "12 Never quotes by Pico Iyer. Plus more from Pico Iyer and more Never sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/pico-iyer-1252_hello_hello-kitty-will-never-speak-1111302_1111302.png" --- > [Hello Kitty will never speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/hello-kitty-will-never-speak/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/pico-iyer-1252_hello_hello-kitty-will-never-speak-1111302_1111302.png) > [I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-ve-never-meditated-in-my-life-i-don-t-practice-yoga-nor-any/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/pico-iyer-1252_any_i-ve-never-meditated-in-my-life-i-don-t_3169231.png) > [I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-m-very-happy-to-be-a-foreigner-in-japan-and-i-can-t-think-of-a-more/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3a/pico-iyer-1252_am_i-m-very-happy-to-be-a-foreigner-in-japa_806313.png) > [I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-would-never-call-jerusalem-beautiful-or-comfortable-or-consoling/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/pico-iyer-1252_about_i-would-never-call-jerusalem-beautiful-o_3185398.png) > [I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-remember-how-in-the-corporate-world-i-always-knew-there-was-some/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/pico-iyer-1252_always_i-remember-how-in-the-corporate-world-i_1850278.png) > [Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/writing-is-how-i-find-out-what-i-believe-and-what-i-care-most-deeply/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/pico-iyer-1252_about_writing-is-how-i-find-out-what-i-believe_2409997.png) > [People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/people-are-always-asking-me-where-i-come-from-and-they-re-expecting/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/pico-iyer-1252_absolutely_people-are-always-asking-me-where-i-come_1178226.jpg) > [I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-ve-yet-to-use-a-cellphone-and-i-ve-never-tweeted-or-entered/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/pico-iyer-1252_could_i-ve-yet-to-use-a-cellphone-and-i-ve-nev_2360882.jpg) > [The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-first-time-i-stepped-onto-the-rooftop-of-the-potala-palace-in/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/099/pico-iyer-1252_before_the-first-time-i-stepped-onto-the-roofto_1743815.jpg) > [The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-poverty-one-still-sees-in-america-today-is-more-shocking-to-me/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcf/pico-iyer-1252_about_the-poverty-one-still-sees-in-america-to_3057243.png) > [It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/it-takes-25-minutes-to-recover-from-a-phone-call-or-an-e-mail/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/pico-iyer-1252_always_it-takes-25-minutes-to-recover-from-a-ph_2281507.png) > [I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-can-still-remember-the-afternoon-on-my-15th-birthday-when-i-opened/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/pico-iyer-1252_afternoon_i-can-still-remember-the-afternoon-on-my_2546579.jpg) ## Other authors on Never ## More by Pico Iyer > [ \[The Dalai Lama\] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i-ve-made-every-concession-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-citizens-who-think-themselves-puppets-in-the-hands-of-their/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-would-say-that-meditation-is-something-that-can-help/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/like-any-traveler-i-m-always-looking-for-those-experiences-that-are/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-you-re-hurrying-around-too-quickly-he-had-said-there-s-a-part-of/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/we-travel-to-open-our-hearts-and-eyes-and-learn-more-about-the-world/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/the-dalai-lama-these-days-encourages-westerners-not-to-take-up/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/and-if-travel-is-like-love-it-is-in-the-end-mostly-because-it-s-a/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/as-soon-as-i-began-to-talk-to-dalai-lama-i-realized-that-chinese-and/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/when-we-are-kids-we-imagine-that-to-define-ourselves-or-to-find/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/a-writer-is-a-palmist-reading-the-lines-of-the-planet/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/in-barely-one-generation-we-ve-moved-from-exulting-in-the-time-saving/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/for-centuries-cubas-greatest-resource-has-been-its-people/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/writing-is-in-the-end-that-oddest-of-anomalies-an-intimate-letter-to/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) > [“Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/was-it-only-through-another-that-i-could-begin-to-get-at-myself/) [Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/never/pico-iyer/#itemlist", "name": "12 Never Quotes By Pico Iyer", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Hello Kitty will never speak.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pico Iyer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/hello-kitty-will-never-speak/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/pico-iyer-1252_hello_hello-kitty-will-never-speak-1111302_1111302.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/pico-iyer-1252_hello_hello-kitty-will-never-speak-1111302_1111302.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/pico-iyer-1252_hello_hello-kitty-will-never-speak-1111302_1111302.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hello Kitty will never speak.” — Pico Iyer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've never meditated in my life. 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