Sayed Kashua Quotes

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

I really like sort of disappearing.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

You know, I have no web presence, and I don't know that there's many people who really do know me that much anymore.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that