Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked โon.
Pico IyerSo travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.
Pico IyerFor 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.
Pico IyerHe [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.
Pico Iyer