Haruki Murakami Quotes

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I just want pieces of the world.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

My days are gone a-wandering.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.