Daniel Handler Quotes

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

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.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

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.

Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I tell people I'm from all over Brooklyn because I never stayed in one part of Brooklyn.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

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

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.