Pico Iyer Way Quotations

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.