Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

He traveled in order to come home.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

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

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

I needed to run away in order to come home.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.

The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.

I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.

If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with.