Unhoused Quotes

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander.

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.

I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

I don't really live anywhere.

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

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

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.

I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

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

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