Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. Pico Iyer Read Quote
I’ve never meditated in my life. I don’t practice yoga nor any religion. I’m a tourist on the realm of stillness. Pico Iyer Read Quote
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that’s the most threatening of all. Pico Iyer Read Quote
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn’t always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology. Pico Iyer Read Quote
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds. Pico Iyer Read Quote
I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads – in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation – that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind. Pico Iyer Read Quote
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. Pico Iyer Read Quote
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I’ve been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me. Pico Iyer Read Quote
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there’s something about it that you can’t turn away from. Pico Iyer Read Quote