Masha Gessen Quotes

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

To be immobile is to be in chains.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.

You should make travel as comfortable as possible.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

We didn't have shoes until we came over to America.

We had a lot of help when we got to America.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.