Pico Iyer

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Tor ...

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tib ...

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuat ...

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, l ...

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his ' ...

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - ...

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - b ...

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that ...

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough ...

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A ...

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of ...

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. ...

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own i ...

Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Soci ...

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bomba ...