Lee Child Quotes

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.

Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.