Pico Iyer Quotes

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

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

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

The Lakers had been home to me, unlike the home I had grown up and felt apart from.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

Mizzou was my real family. I loved it. Football was a sense of home. A home I never had.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.