Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

What I love about going home is that, if I turn my phone off or don't open my computer, nothing's changed. Obviously, the world has changed for me, but home looks and feels exactly the same.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Home is here in London and always has been.

I love traveling and touring, but I have to bring the little things that make me feel at home.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.