Walker Percy Quotes

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

All my life I have been a nomad.

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

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

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

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

People who travel are always fugitives.

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 have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

I'm a nomad.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

For we Americans, we are restless, the restless of all nations. None but the restless has ever come to America.

The established Authority of any government in America, and the policy of Government at home, are both insufficient to restrain the Americans .... They acquire no attachment to Place: But wandering about Seems engrafted in their Nature; and it is a weakness incident to it, that they Should for ever imagine the Lands further off, are Still better than those upon which they are already settled.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don't have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don't care.