Alexander Chee Quotes

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

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

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

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?

Some days I think I would definitely like to move abroad but then, other days, I think I don't fancy it at all.

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.

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

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

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.

I don't want to return to France; France doesn't tempt me at all. I like England.

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

I never, ever imagined leaving Great Britain.

I actually did try to emigrate to Australia a long time ago.

I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

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 think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

I really wanted to get out of England.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.