Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
Pico IyerOne curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
Pico IyerI think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.
Pico IyerMovement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
Pico Iyer