Out Quotes by Pico Iyer

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella,…

— Pico Iyer

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall…

— Pico Iyer

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids…

— Pico Iyer

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to…

— Pico Iyer

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives…

— Pico Iyer

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending…

— Pico Iyer

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson…

— Pico Iyer

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and…

— Pico Iyer

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space…

— Pico Iyer

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the…

— Pico Iyer

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our…

— Pico Iyer

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out…

— Pico Iyer

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,…

— Pico Iyer