“In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the pi...” — Pico Iyer Quote

“In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.”

“I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.”

“I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.”

“There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.”

“I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.”

“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”