Jacques Lacan Quotes

I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.

As someone who works and travels as much, you could feel... A bit rootless?

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips back to Queens.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

I've lived in so many different towns - Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, Jersey City. We didn't have a lot of money, and we'd get kicked out of places a lot.

I like to be moved around a lot because the defense can never know or expect me to be in just one place. They can't really key on me. I can be freed up.

I am a Maharashtrian but was not brought up in Maharashtra, as my father worked in CPWD and was transferred every two years. So I have always been a gypsy. I, therefore, could not make good friends, and it still takes me a long time to form attachments.

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

Jetsetting is now not the privilege of the elite so much as a veritiginous mundanity for a permanently dispossessed global workforce.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.