Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes know overnight teenager
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet. Pico Iyer clarityemotionalinternet Change image and share on social
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. Pico Iyer aircaliforniachristmas Change image and share on social
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer. Pico Iyer acceleratedistributionfinancial share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social
As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style. Eliza Doolittle artistdarkovernight Change image and share on social
They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. Roddy McDowall boyenglishknow Change image and share on social