Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. - Pico Iyer
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. - Pico Iyer
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice - Pico Iyer
But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. - Pico Iyer
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. - Pico Iyer
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come. - Pico Iyer