Drifter Quotes

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

You know me - I'm the road dog of road dogs.

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.

I'm a nomad.

I've always been pretty nomadic.

The Spirit is a kind of postmodern loner hero. He comes from nowhere; he has no real relationship to anything.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I don't really live anywhere.

I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.

You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

I'm a drifter. I go where the wind blows.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.