Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian origin, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time since 1986, he also publishes regularly in Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and many other publications...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWriter
CountryIndia
technology tools teach
Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.
eye home facts
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.
dream heart america
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
hello speak kitties
Hello Kitty will never speak.
machines use information
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
christmas japan years
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
being-in-love love-is littles
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.
sitting-still mind relax
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.
adventure responsibility thinking
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.
serendipity caprice guides
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
age acceleration exhilarating
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
travel wordsworth mood
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
adventure responsibility discovery
So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.
home light luxury
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.