E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

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

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.

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

I feel at home when I go to London.

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows I've already seen 400 times on TV.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.

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

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.

I miss Jersey so much; I'm really connected to it. I love the big malls, the diners.

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

I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.

Honestly, I stay in a lot of hotels, and it makes me miss my bed.

I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.