Pico Iyer Quotes

Home is wherever I go.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

All my life I have been a nomad.

I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don't have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don't care.

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

I live wherever I happen to be.

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.