Pico Iyer Quotes

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

I like things to be unpredictable.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.