Writing Quotes 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,…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Pico Iyer

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

— 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,…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Pico Iyer

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

— 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…

— Pico Iyer

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

— Pico Iyer

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

— Pico Iyer

“Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?”

— Pico Iyer