Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

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

I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.

I travel a lot.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I travel quite a bit.

Travel is stressful.

I hate to travel.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

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.

Everything good is on the highway.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

I can't tell you how wonderful it is to hop in my car and drive home after rehearsal.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.