Panos Cosmatos Quotes

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.

I've never felt at home anywhere.

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

I always feel like a foreigner in America.