Pico Iyer Quotes

I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Nobody can be a clairvoyant.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

I do believe in prophecy.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual.