Best Pico Iyer Quotations
- One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is… All
- I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that… Begin
- A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. Adventure
- Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do. Charisma
- Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. All
- To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole… Allows
- If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting… All
- All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an… Accelerate
- In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after… Across
- A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason… Certain
- Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand. End
- What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me… Any
- More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the… All
- Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. Adventure
- I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been. Always Going
- The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country… Anyone
- A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet. Lines
- I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care… Care
- The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger,… Affinity
- I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel,… Any
- If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of… Cell
- I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and… Absorb
- There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as… Addicted
- In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world,… Accelerate
- For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. Citizens
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