Louis Kronenberger Quotes

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel... A bit rootless?

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

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

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

My life's like a big tour. It's cool, I'm still semi-young. I'm not too old yet where it's like, "I hate the road!" As long as I'm not anywhere for too long. I like to keep moving.

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 think I was born with a suitcase.

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.

I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

I live wherever I happen to be.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I live in too many cities.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.