Pico Iyer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.”

“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.”

“A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.”

“We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.”

“'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.”

“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.”

“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 them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”

“The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.”

“A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.”

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