Lee Child Quotes

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

I love living on the road; I live out of a suitcase.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

It's very liberating to cut your hair.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.