Robert Lepage Quotes

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

The unknown is always interesting.

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I love being in the world of the unknown.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.